Comment on "QF-PCR as a substitute for karyotyping of cytotrophoblast for the analysis of chorionic villi: Advantages and limitations from a cytogenetic retrospective audit of 44727 first-trimester prenatal diagnoses"

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1115-1116

  Toutain, Jérôme ^a   Van Gils, Julien ^a   Horovitz, Jacques ^a   Saura, Robert ^a  

^a BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; CHORION VILLUS; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FETUS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; ITALY; KARYOTYPING; LETTER; MEDICAL AUDIT; MOSAICISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHORT TERM CULTURE; TISSUE CULTURE;

CHORIONIC VILLI; FEMALE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 84886572488     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.4202     Document Type: Letter

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