Success rate for culture of fetal postmortem tissue is dependent on the method of pregnancy termination

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 306-308

  Winsor, Elizabeth J T ^a,b   Windrim, Rory ^a   Chitayat, David ^a   Ryan, Greg ^a   Seaward, Gareth ^a   Akoury, Hani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cytogenetics; Fetal cell culture; Fetal pathology

Indexed keywords

MISOPROSTOL; PROSTAGLANDIN;

ABORTION; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE CULTURE; UMBILICAL CORD;

ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS, NONSTEROIDAL; ABORTION, INDUCED; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DINOPROST; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MISOPROSTOL; PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 20944442012     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000085091     Document Type: Article

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