Clinical evaluation of isolated nonvisualized fetal gallbladder

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 699-703

  Ochshorn, Yifat ^a,b,c   Rosner, Guy ^b   Barel, Dalit ^b   Bronshtein, Moshe ^d   Muller, Francoise ^e   Yaron, Yuval ^a,b,c  

^a LIS MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Cystic fibrosis (CF); Isolated nonvisualized gallbladder (INVFGB); Microvillar membrane enzymes (MME); Ultrasound scan

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FETUS; GALLBLADDER AGENESIS; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE 47,XXX; MUTATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ANEUPLOIDY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MICROVILLI; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SEX CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; THYROID DYSGENESIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 34547739082     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1757     Document Type: Article

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