Prenatal ultrasound diagnosis of club foot. Outcome and recommendations for counselling and follow-up

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 990-993

  Bar On, Elbar ^a   Mashiach, R ^b   Inbar, O ^c   Weigl, D ^a   Katz, K ^a   Meizner, I ^b  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUBFOOT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS KARYOTYPING; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN; PREDICTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEPHONE;

CLUBFOOT; COUNSELING; FEMALE; FOOT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 22144486918     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.87B7.16076     Document Type: Article

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