VACTERL association and maternal diabetes: A possible causal relationship?

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 169-172

  Castori, Marco ^a   Rinaldi, Rosanna ^b   Capocaccia, Paolo ^b   Roggini, Mario ^b   Grammatico, Paola ^b  

^a LABORATORIO DI PATOLOGIA VASCOLARE   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blastogenesis; Diabetic embryopathy; Teratogen; VACTERL; VATER

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CRYPTORCHISM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HAND MALFORMATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION; MALE; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON MALFORMATION; ULTRASOUND; X RAY;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS; SYNDROME;

FISTULA;

EID: 41449108846     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20432     Document Type: Article

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