Fetal intracranial calcification: Pseudo-TORCH phenotype and discussion of related phenotypes

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 930-937

  Kulkarni, Akhil Muralidhar ^a   Baskar, Shankar ^a   Kulkarni, Muralidhar Laxmanrao ^a   Kulkarni, Abhishek Jayateerth ^a   Mahuli, Amit Vasanth ^b   Vittalrao, Suhasini ^a   Kulkarni, Preethi Muralidar ^a  

^a J J M MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Davangere   (India)

Author keywords

Abnormal gyral pattern; Altrsonography; Band like calcification; Intracranial calcification; Prenatal; Pseudo TORCH

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; RUBELLA ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EAR MALFORMATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACE ASYMMETRY; FACE DYSMORPHIA; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTELORISM; HYPOSPADIAS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; MICROGNATHIA; MICROGYRIA; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDO TORCH PHENOTYPE; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADULT; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CALCINOSIS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 77950428034     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.33358     Document Type: Article

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