Schizencephaly in a dysgenetic fetal brain: Prenatal sonographic, magnetic resonance imaging, and postmortem correlation

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 551-554

  Huang, William M ^a   Monteagudo, Ana ^a   Bennett, Genevieve L ^a   Fowkes, Mary E ^a   Timor Tritsch, Ilan E ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CELL MIGRATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSGENETIC FETAL BRAIN; ECHOGRAPHY; EMX2 GENE; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; INCIDENTAL FINDING; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SCHIZENCEPHALY; SEIZURE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 33646040399     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2006.25.4.551     Document Type: Article

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