Intrauterine Therapy for the Acutely Enlarging Fetal Cystic Hygroma

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 191-194

  Kuwabara, Yoshimitsu ^a   Sawa, Rintaro ^a   Otsubo, Yasuo ^a   Yoneyama, Yoshio ^a   Asakura, Hirobumi ^a   Araki, Tsutomu ^a   Takeshita, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fetal cystic hygroma; Intrauterine therapy; OK 432

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDBIRTH; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYMPHANGIOMA, CYSTIC; MALE; PREGNANCY; SCLEROTHERAPY;

EID: 1142274191     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000075149     Document Type: Article

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