Postmortem evaluation of 220 prenatally diagnosed fetuses with neural tube defects: Detection of associated anomalies in a Turkish population

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 147-153

  Ceylaner, Serdar ^a,c   Ceylaner, Gülay ^a   Günyeli, Ilker ^a   Ekici, Eyüp ^a   Tuǧ, Mengü ^a   Taner, Dilara ^a   Ekerbicer, Hasan ^b   Mollamahmutoǧlu, Leyla ^a   Danişman, Nuri ^a  

^a ZEKAI TAHIR BURAK WOMEN S HEALTH EDUCATION AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b KSU Medical School   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Neural tube defect; Postmortem evaluation; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ANENCEPHALUS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLUBFOOT; ECHOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SPINA BIFIDA; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); X RAY;

ABNORMALITIES; AUTOPSY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TURKEY;

EID: 33344475133     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1378     Document Type: Article

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