Prenatal diagnosis of sex chromosome abnormalities: The 8-year experience of a single medical center

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 76-81

  Vaknin, Zvi ^a   Reish, Orit ^a   Ben Ami, Ido ^a   Heyman, Eli ^a,b   Herman, Arie ^a   Maymon, Ron ^a  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fetal anomalies; Prenatal diagnosis; Sex chromosomal abnormalities; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; DOWN SYNDROME; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS HYDROPS; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; TURNER SYNDROME;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS;

EID: 37049002228     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000109231     Document Type: Article

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