Short-rib-polydactyly syndrome presenting with increased nuchal translucency in a high-risk family

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 401-403

  Daskalakis, G ^a   Souka, A P ^a,b   Kavalakis, I ^a   Haritos, T ^a   Basayiannis, C ^a   Antsaklis, P ^a   Antsaklis, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b 1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology   (Greece)

Author keywords

Nuchal translucency; Short rib polydactyly syndrome; Skeletal dysplasias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BONE DYSPLASIA; CASE REPORT; CHONDRODYSPLASIA; FAMILY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; LETHALITY; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THORAX MALFORMATION;

ADULT; BONE AND BONES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MALE; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; POLYDACTYLY; PREGNANCY; RIBS; RISK FACTORS; SYNDROME; VISCERA;

EID: 33747291853     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000093879     Document Type: Article

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