Cervical ribs are more prevalent in stillborn fetuses than in live-born infants and are strongly associated with fetal aneuploidy

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 431-437

  Furtado, Larissa V ^a   Thaker, Harshwardhan M ^a,b   Erickson, Lance K ^a,b   Shirts, Brian H ^a   Opitz, John M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PRIMARY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Autopsy; Cervical ribs; Developmental constraint; Homeotic transformation; Stillbirth

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY SPLEEN; ANENCEPHALUS; ANEUPLOIDY; ANUS ATRESIA; AORTA ANOMALY; AORTA ARCH INTERRUPTION; AORTA ATRESIA; ARTICLE; ATRESIA; AUTOPSY; CERVICAL RIB; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLEFT LIP PALATE; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLOPIA; DEXTROCARDIA; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; GONADAL AGENESIS; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYDROPS; KARYOTYPE; KIDNEY AGENESIS; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; OMPHALOCELE; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STILLBIRTH; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA;

ANEUPLOIDY; AUTOPSY; CERVICAL RIB; CERVICAL RIB SYNDROME; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; PREVALENCE; STILLBIRTH; UTAH;

EID: 84856376045     PISSN: 10935266     EISSN: 16155742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2350/11-01-0974-OA.1     Document Type: Article

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