Fetal pericardial teratoma causing cardiac insufficiency: Prenatal diagnosis and therapy [1]

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 972-973

  Kamil, D ^a   Geipel, A ^a   Schmitz, C ^a   Breuer, J ^a   Herberg, U ^a   Knopfle G ^a   Gembruch, U ^a   Berg, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHOGRAPHY; FETAL TUMOR; FOLLOW UP; GESTATION PERIOD; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; LETTER; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; TERATOMA; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDIUM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TERATOMA;

EID: 33845871169     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.3829     Document Type: Letter

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