Failure to identify antenatal multiple congenital contractures and fetal akinesia - proposal of guidelines to improve diagnosis

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-74

  Filges, Isabel ^a,b   Hall, Judith G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AKINESIA; ARTICLE; BONE GROWTH; CLUBFOOT; CONTRACTURE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUSCLE TISSUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ARTHROGRYPOSIS; CONTRACTURE; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FETAL MOVEMENT; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDLINE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84872143468     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.4011     Document Type: Article

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