Errors in the prenatal diagnosis of children with achondroplasia

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 525-530

  Modaff, Peggy ^b   Kim Horton, V ^a,b   Pauli, Richard M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Achondroplasia; Misdiagnosis; Prenatal diagnosis; Short limbed dwarfism

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ACHONDROPLASIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DWARFISM; FAMILY HISTORY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACHONDROPLASIA; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; MUTATION; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR, TYPE 3; RECEPTORS, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 8944258923     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199606)16:6<525::AID-PD909>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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