Fetal varicella - diagnosis, management, and outcome

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 511-518

  Mandelbrot, Laurent ^a  

^a HÔPITAL LOUIS MOURIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; VALACICLOVIR;

AMNIOCENTESIS; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CALCIFICATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHICKENPOX; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DELIVERY; FETAL VARICELLA SYNDROME; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD SAMPLING; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MORTALITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LIMB MALFORMATION; MICROPHTHALMIA; NEWBORN INFECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SKIN MANIFESTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACCINATION; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CHICKENPOX; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETAL DISEASES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROGNOSIS; SYNDROME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3;

EID: 84861482086     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.3843     Document Type: Review

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