Developmental stages in human embryos: Revised and new measurements

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 73-84

  O'Rahilly, Ronan ^a,b   Müller, Fabiola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carnegie stages; Developmental stages; Embryonic ages; Embryonic development; Embryonic measurements; Embryonic fetal transition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CHORION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY;

CROWN-RUMP LENGTH; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 77954464042     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000289817     Document Type: Article

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