Frontal bilateral megalencephaly: Fetal and autopsy MR evaluation of an unclassified malformation

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 489-491

  Parazzini, Cecilia ^a,b   Righini, Andrea ^a   Lalatta, Faustina ^a   Bianchini, Elena ^a   Triulzi, Fabio ^a  

^a Istituti Clinici di Perfezionamento ^*  (Italy)

^b V BUZZI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cortical malformation; Fetal MRI; Frontal megalencephaly

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXANDER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FETUS; FRONTAL BILATERAL MEGALENCEPHALY; GENETIC COUNSELING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MACROCEPHALY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 22044454970     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1178     Document Type: Article

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