Prenatal sonographic diagnosis of a rare Cantrell's pentalogy variant with associated open neural tube defect - A case report

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 172-174

  Loureiro, T ^a,b   Oliveira, C ^a   Aroso, J ^a   Ferreira, M J ^a   Vieira, J ^a  

^a Hospital Padre Americo   (Portugal)

^b NONE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cantrell's pentalogy; Open neural tube defect; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; CANTRELL PENTALOGY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PATHOLOGY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADULT; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PREGNANCY; SYNDROME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 34247148409     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000098710     Document Type: Article

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