Syndromes with focal femoral deficiency: Strengths and weaknesses of prenatal sonography

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1511-1516

  Filly, Anthony L ^a   Robnett Filly, Barbara ^a   Filly, Roy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Obstetric sonography; Prenatal diagnosis; Proximal focal femoral deficiency; Skeletal dysplasia

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; SONOCHEMISTRY;

FEMORAL DEFICIENCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL SONOGRAPHY; SYNDROMES;

DISEASES;

AGENESIS; ARTICLE; BONE BOWING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUBFOOT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMOROFACIAL SYNDROME; FEMUR MALFORMATION; FETUS; FIBULA; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; MICROGNATHIA; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SELECTIVE ABORTION; SKELETON MALFORMATION; SYNDROME;

EID: 6944248878     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2004.23.11.1511     Document Type: Article

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