The role of ultrasound in fetal congenital myopathy detection: A novel case of fetal-onset cap myopathy

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1102-1104

  Tamblyn, J A ^a   Morris, R K ^a,b   Cox, P ^b   Hargitai, B ^b   Kilby, M D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; SULINDAC;

AMNIOCENTESIS; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FETAL ONSET CAP MYOPATHY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEREDITARY MUSCLE DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; LETTER; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOPATHY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NEWBORN; ONSET AGE; PARENT COUNSELING; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

ABORTION, EUGENIC; ADULT; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MUSCULAR DISEASES; MYOPATHIES, STRUCTURAL, CONGENITAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84886594874     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.4184     Document Type: Letter

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