Carbimazole embryopathy-bilateral choanal atresia and patent vitello-intestinal duct: A case report and review of literature

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 649-652

  Kannan, Lakshminarayanan ^a   Mishra, Satish ^a   Agarwal, Ramesh ^a   Kartikeyan, Venkat ^a   Gupta, Neerja ^a   Kabra, Madhulika ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Carbimazole; Choanal atresia; Patent vitello intestinal duct; Teratogenicity; Thyrotoxicosis

Indexed keywords

CARBIMAZOLE; LIOTRIX; METHYLDOPA; PROPRANOLOL; THIAMAZOLE;

ANUS ATRESIA; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CHOANA ATRESIA; COLOBOMA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEARING LOSS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; INTESTINE MALFORMATION; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; OPERATION DURATION; PATENT VITELLO INTESTINAL DUCT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN APLASIA; STENT;

EID: 52249103258     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20483     Document Type: Article

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