Auricular mild errors of morphogenesis: Epidemiological analysis, local correlations and clinical significance

Annales de Genetique

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 225-234

  Bader, David ^a   Grun, Marta ^a   Riskin Mashiah, Shlomit ^b   Grunfeld, Andrei ^a   Kogelman, Amir ^a   Chistyakov, Irena ^a   Merlob, Paul ^c  

^a BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ear deformation; Ear malformation; External ear anomalies; External ear variants; Mild errors of morphogenesis; Newborn infant

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSANGUINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ETHNOLOGY; EXTERNAL EAR MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENDER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; MORPHOGENESIS; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; PATHOGENESIS; PERINATAL PERIOD; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; REGISTER; SCREENING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ABNORMALITIES; ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONSANGUINITY; DISEASES IN TWINS; EAR, EXTERNAL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETAL MACROSOMIA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; ISRAEL; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; NEONATAL SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RISK FACTORS; SYNDROME; TRIPLETS;

EID: 4344639398     PISSN: 00033995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anngen.2004.02.007     Document Type: Article

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