The Exstrophy-epispadias complex

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Ebert, Anne Karoline ^a   Reutter, Heiko ^b   Ludwig, Michael ^b   Rösch, Wolfgang H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DIAZEPAM; HEPARIN; INFLUENZA VACCINE; MISOPROSTOL; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PRIMIDONE; TERATOGENIC AGENT; VALPROIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ABDOMINAL WALL CLOSURE; ANUS; ANUS ATRESIA; BLADDER EMPTYING; BLADDER EXSTROPHY; BLADDER FUNCTION; BLADDER RECONSTRUCTION; CLOACA; CONTINENCE; COUNSELING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPISPADIAS; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FETUS BLADDER; GENETICS; GENITAL SYSTEM; HEREDITY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OMPHALOCELE; PARENT; PELVIS; PELVIS FLOOR; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; PUBERTY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPINE; SPINE MALFORMATION; TERATOGENESIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; ULTRASOUND; URINARY DIVERSION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; MALE; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; OSTEOTOMY; PATHOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROGNOSIS;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; BLADDER EXSTROPHY; CLOACA; COUNSELING; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPISPADIAS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OSTEOTOMY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 72849115908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17501172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1750-1172-4-23     Document Type: Review

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