Expanding the differential diagnosis of fetal hydrops: An unusual prenatal presentation of megalencephaly-capillary malformation syndrome

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1010-1012

  Swarr, Daniel T ^a   Khalek, Nahla ^a,b   Treat, James ^a   Horton, Margaret A ^a   Mirzaa, Ghayda M ^c   Riviere, Jean Baptiste ^c   Dobyns, William B ^c,d   Zackai, Elaine H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c SEATTLE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEXANDER DISEASE; BIPARIETAL DISTANCE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHYLOTHORAX; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS HYDROPS; FRONTAL LOBE; GESTATION PERIOD; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; LETTER; MACROCEPHALY; MEGALENCEPHALY CAPILLARY MALFORMATION; MICROGYRIA; NEWBORN; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; POLYDACTYLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROPS FETALIS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MACROCEPHALY; MALE; PREGNANCY; SKIN DISEASES, VASCULAR; TELANGIECTASIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84884981023     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.4178     Document Type: Letter

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