Limb-body wall defect. Is there a defensible hypothesis and can it explain all the associated anomalies?

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 155, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2045-2059

  Hunter, Alasdair G W ^a   Seaver, Laurie H ^b,c   Stevenson, Roger E ^a  

^a GREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER   (United States)

^b Kapi'olani Medical Specialists   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Amniotic bands; Atypical craniofacial malformation; Body wall complex; Epiblast; Germinal disc; Hypothesis; Limb body wall defect; Ventral abdominal wall defect

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; AGENESIS; ANENCEPHALUS; AUTOLYSIS; BIRTH DEFECT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE MALROTATION; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; LABOR INDUCTION; LIMB BODY WALL DEFECT; LIMB MALFORMATION; LUNG MALFORMATION; MALE; MALFORMATION SYNDROME; NEWBORN; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; STILLBIRTH;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; AMNIOTIC BAND SYNDROME; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; ECTROMELIA; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; GASTROSCHISIS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; MALE;

EID: 84860389184     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.34161     Document Type: Review

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