Quality aspects of prenatal cytogenetic diagnosis: Determining the effect of various factors involved in handling amniotic fluid and chorionic villus material for cytogenetic diagnosis

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 791-800

  Sikkema Raddatz, Birgit ^a   Suijkerbuijk, Ron ^a   Bouman, Katelijne ^a   De Jong, Bauke ^a   Buys, Charles H C M ^a   Te Meerman, Gerard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amniotic fluid; Chorionic villi; Primary in situ cultures; Slide preparation

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMIDITY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CHORIONIC VILLI SAMPLING; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 33749457900     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1505     Document Type: Article

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