Elevated maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein, umbilical vein varix, and mesenchymal dysplasia: Are they related?

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 659-661

  Mulch, Amanda D ^a   Stallings, Shawn P ^a   Salafia, Carolyn M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EarlyPath Clinical and Research Diagnostics   (United States)

Author keywords

Elevated maternal Serum Alpha fetoprotein; Mesenchymal Dysplasia; Umbilical Vein Varix

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DYSPLASIA; FEMALE; FETUS LUNG MATURITY; FOLLOW UP; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; MATERNAL SERUM; PATHOLOGY; PLACENTA VILLUS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; ULTRASOUND; UMBILICAL VEIN; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VARICOSIS;

ADULT; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; CHORIONIC VILLI; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MESODERM; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL VEINS; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 33747430498     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1436     Document Type: Article

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