The fetal Dandy Walker complex: Associated anomalies, perinatal outcome and postnatal imaging

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 277-281

  Harper, Terry ^a   Fordham, Lynn Ansley ^a   Wolfe, Honor M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Fetal Dandy Walker; Fetal MRI; Posterior fossa

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; CHOROID PLEXUS CYST; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION 4; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS KARYOTYPING; FETUS MALFORMATION; GENITAL MALFORMATION; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; LIMB MALFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PARTIAL TRISOMY 8; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RING CHROMOSOME 18; TRIPLOIDY; TRISOMY 10; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; AMNIOCENTESIS; ANEUPLOIDY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; DANDY-WALKER SYNDROME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 34250343044     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000100790     Document Type: Article

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