Prenatal diagnosis of cloverleaf skull: Watch the hands!

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 296-300

  Gorincour, Guillaume ^a   Rypens, Françoise ^a   Grignon, Andrée ^a   Garel, Laurent ^a   Bortoluzzi, Patricia ^a   Oligny, Luc ^a   Lemyre, Emmanuelle ^a   Duperron, Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cloverleaf skull; Extremities; Pfeiffer syndrome; Prenatal diagnosis; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLY; ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIOMETRY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FETUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SKULL MALFORMATION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLIA; ADULT; FEMALE; HAND DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; SKULL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 20944443020     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000085089     Document Type: Article

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