Clinicopathological study of bilateral developmental cataracts diagnosed in utero

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 244, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 237-242

  Roberts, Fiona ^a   Wisdom, Stephen ^b   Howatson, Allan G ^c   Imrie, Stuart ^c  

^a WESTERN INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developmental cataract; Prenatal diagnosis; Supernumerary chromosome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; C BANDING; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 21; CONGENITAL CATARACT; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS KARYOTYPING; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LENS FIBER; LIQUEFACTION; MACROPHAGE; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERNUMERARY CHROMOSOME; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ABORTION, LEGAL; ADULT; CATARACT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 21; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KARYOTYPING; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 33644531534     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-005-0031-6     Document Type: Article

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