The thymic-thoracic ratio in fetal heart defects: A simple way to identify fetuses at high risk for microdeletion 22q11

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 397-403

  Chaoui, R ^a   Heling, K S ^a   Sarut Lopez, A ^a   Thiel, G ^a   Karl, K ^b  

^a Center of Prenatal Diagnosis and Human Genetics   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

congenital heart defects; deletion 22q11; fetal echocardiography; prenatal diagnosis; thymus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 22; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GENE DELETION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFERENCE VALUE; THYMUS;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC MARKERS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; THYMUS GLAND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 79953142850     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.8952     Document Type: Article

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