A case of recurrent familial male miscarriages with hypercoiled umbilical cord: A possible X-linked association?

Clinical Dysmorphology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 26-28

  Beggan, Caitlin ^a   Mooney, Eoghan E ^a   Downey, Paul ^a   Carroll, Stephen ^a   Reardon, Willie ^a  

^a NATIONAL MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CONCEPTION; CONGENITAL INFECTION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYDRAMNIOS; HYPERCOILED UMBILICAL CORD; INFANT; MALE; PERINATAL DEATH; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; UMBILICAL CORD COMPLICATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; FEMALE; GENES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 84890555736     PISSN: 09628827     EISSN: 14735717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCD.0000000000000015     Document Type: Article

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