Prenatal diagnosis of an epignathus associated with a 49,XXXXY karyotype - A case report

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 313-317

  Staboulidou, Ismini ^a   Miller, Konstantin ^a   Göhring, Gudrun ^a   Hillemanns, Peter ^a   Wüstemann, Max ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epignathus; Karyotyping; Pentasomy; Prenatal ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIGNATHUS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GASTROSCHISIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERATOMA; TRACHEOSTOMY; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; PREGNANCY; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SEX CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; SKULL NEOPLASMS; TERATOMA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 52849120472     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000160219     Document Type: Article

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