Prenatal Diagnosis and Genetic Counseling of Omphalocele: An Overview and Atlas of Cases

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Elsevier Health Sciences TW, 30.11.2007 - 208 Seiten
Omphalocele is a heterogeneous condition associated with chromosomal abnormalities, epigenetic defects, and various syndromes and disorders. The book is consisted of 6-chapter contents and 260 illustrations, which discusses some of the more recent advances in knowledge of prenatal diagnosis and genetic counseling of omphalocele-related abnormalities. The atlas contains comprehensive visual information that has been gathered by the author during a career devoted to fetal medicine. With the contents and atlas, the book will be useful to a wide audience of medical students, genetic counselors, medical geneticist, obstetricians, pediatricians and healthcare professions in the field of prenatal diagnosis.
  • Omphalocele is a heterogeneous condition associated with chromosomal abnormalities, epigenetic defects, and various syndromes and disorders.
  • The book contains 6-charpter content list and 260 illustrations would suffice for the reader to realize the complexity of the omphalocele.
  • The atlas contains comprehensive visual information that has been gathered by the author during a career devoted to fetal medicine.
  • With the contents and atlas, the book will be a useful resource not only to all those involved in prenatal diagnosis of omphalocele, but also to those providing genetic counselling. It will help them take the correct diagnostic approaches, make accurate differential diagnoses, and implement the most appropriate procedures in the management of these pregnancies.
 

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Numerical Chromosomal Abnormalities
1
BeckwithWiedemann Syndrome
27
Omphaloceleexstrophyimperforate
47
Pentalogy of Cantrell
61
Atlas and Cases
103
Index
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