Acardiac fetus: Evidence in support of a vascular/hypoxia pathogenesis for isolated oral clefting

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 597-600

  Jones, Kenneth Lyons ^a   Webster, William S ^c   Vaux, Keith K ^a   Benirschke, Kurt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acardia; Hypoxia; Oral clefts; Twin reversed arterial perfusion (TRAP) sequence; Vascular disruption

Indexed keywords

ACARDIUS; ARTICLE; CLEFT LIP PALATE; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS HYPOXIA; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ANOXIA; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETAL HEART; FETUS; HUMANS; MONSTERS; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 50249167577     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20473     Document Type: Article

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