Maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein levels in fetal hydrocephalus: A retrospective population based study

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Szajkowski, Terrence P ^a   Chodirker, Bernard N ^a   MacDonald, Karen M ^a   Evans, Jane A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

ADULT; ASCITES; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CANADA; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EAR MALFORMATION; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FETUS; FOOT MALFORMATION; GENITAL MALFORMATION; HAND MALFORMATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYDROURETER; HYPERTELORISM; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; LIMB MALFORMATION; LUNG MALFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL SERUM; MICROGNATHIA; MICROPHTHALMIA; NAIL HYPOPLASIA; NOSE DISEASE; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PALPEBRAL FISSURE ANOMALY; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PLEURA EFFUSION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCOLIOSIS; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL MALFORMATION; STUDENT T TEST; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA;

EID: 33746948811     PISSN: 14712393     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-6-23     Document Type: Review

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