Prenatal 3-dimensional sonographic diagnosis of a massive fetal epignathus occluding the oral orifice and both nostrils at 35 weeks' gestation

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1503-1505

  Sherer, David M ^a   Zigalo, Aleksandra ^a   Abulafia, Ovadia ^a  

^a Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; FETUS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROSTOMY; HUMAN; MOUTH TUMOR; NECK TUMOR; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; TERATOMA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACHEOTOMY;

EID: 33846997562     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2006.25.11.1503     Document Type: Article

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