Familial occipital cephalocele in a fetus at 21 weeks' gestation: Imaging demonstration across 3 generations

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1747-1751

  Ghonge, Nitin P ^a   Kanika, Sekhri Sethi ^a   Poonam, Bajaj ^b  

^a Diwan Chand Satyapal Aggarwal Imaging Research Centre New Delhi   (India)

^b Apollo Clinic and Cradle Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ECHOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADULT; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 82455204063     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2011.30.12.1747     Document Type: Letter

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