Patterns of severe abdominal wall defects: Insights into pathogenesis, delineation, and nomenclature

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 211-220

  Vauthay, Liliana ^a   Mazzitelli, Nancy ^a,b   Rittler, Monica ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Private Laboratory of Perinatal Pathology   (Argentina)

^c NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Abdominal wall defect; Amniotic bands; Cloaca; Limb body wall complex; OEIS; Overlapping; Placodes; Umbilical ring

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; AGENESIS; AORTA SUBVALVULAR STENOSIS; ARGENTINA; CLEFT LIP PALATE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOACA; CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS; DEXTROCARDIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; EXENCEPHALY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FOOT MALFORMATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; KIDNEY AGENESIS; LIMB DEFECT; NOMENCLATURE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL CORD MALFORMATION; STILLBIRTH; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UMBILICAL CORD; UTERUS MALFORMATION; VERTEBRA MALFORMATION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ARGENTINA; CLOACA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOWER EXTREMITY DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; STILLBIRTH; TERMINOLOGY; UMBILICAL CORD;

SARDA;

EID: 33947120085     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20339     Document Type: Review

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