Congenital fibrosarcoma as cause for fetal anemia: Prenatal diagnosis and in utero treatment

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 434-436

  Scheier, Matthias ^a,b   Ramoni, Angela ^a   Alge, Alexander ^a   Brezinka, Christoph ^a   Reiter, Gernot ^a   Sergi, Consolato ^a   Hager, Josef ^a   Marth, Christian ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Congenital fibrosarcoma; Fetal anemia; Fetal tumor; Intrauterine transfusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FETAL TUMOR; FETUS; FETUS LUNG MATURITY; FIBROSARCOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEWBORN ANEMIA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERUS BLEEDING;

ADULT; ANEMIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, INTRAUTERINE; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREGNANCY; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 56149109331     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000173370     Document Type: Article

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