Prenatal diagnosis of Meckel-Gruber syndrome in a pregnancy obtained with ICSI

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 281-283

  Celentano, Claudio ^a,f   Prefumo, Federico ^b   Liberati, Marco ^c   Gallo, Giuseppina ^c   Di Nisio, Quirino ^a   Rotmensch, Sigfried ^d,e  

^a San Massimo Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^d WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^f NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

ICSI; Meckel Gruber syndrome; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLEFT PALATE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; LIVER CYST; MECKEL SYNDROME; POLYDACTYLY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADULT; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASES; POLYDACTYLY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SYNDROME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 33748797126     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-006-9040-6     Document Type: Article

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