Case report of unilateral clefting: Is sonic hedgehog to blame?

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 117-120

  Delaney, Meghan ^a   Boyd, Theonia K ^b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Body symmetry; Dysmorphology; Embryonic and fetal development; Oblique facial cleft; Sonic hedgehog; Unilateral anomalies

Indexed keywords

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMITH LEMLI OPITZ SYNDROME; ULTRASOUND; UNILATERAL CLEFT LIP;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ABORTION, INDUCED; BONE AND BONES; FEMALE; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; SKULL; SMITH-LEMLI-OPITZ SYNDROME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 34147204160     PISSN: 10935266     EISSN: 16155742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2350/06-03-0063.1     Document Type: Article

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