Case 16-2009: A 32-year-old pregnant woman with an abnormal fetal ultrasound study

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 360, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 2225-2235

  Lockwood, Charles J ^a   Nadel, Allan S ^b,c   King, Mary Etta ^b,c   Roberts, Drucilla J ^b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABETALOL;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HYDROPS; GENETIC DISORDER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYGROMA; HYPERTENSION; LABOR; LYMPHANGIECTASIS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; LYSOSOME STORAGE DISEASE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSTETRICS; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS; UTERINE CERVICITIS; UTERUS; VITAL SIGN; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS DISEASE; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADULT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; HYDROPS FETALIS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; LYMPHANGIECTASIS; LYMPHANGIOMA, CYSTIC; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 66149110775     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc0809064     Document Type: Article

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