Prenatal Diagnosis and Genetic Counseling of Omphalocele
An Overview and Atlas of Cases
- 1st Edition - November 30, 2007
- Author: Chih-Ping Chen
- Language: English
Omphalocele is a heterogeneous condition associated with chromosomal abnormalities, epigenetic defects, and various syndromes and disorders. The book is consisted of 6-chapter… Read more
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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.
Chapter 1. Numerical chromosomal abnormalities associated with omphaloceleChapter 2. Structural chromosomal abnormalities and uniparental disomy associated with omphaloceleChapter 3. Beckwith-Wiedemann syndromeChapter 4. Omphalocele-exstrophy-imperforate anus-spinal defects (OEIS) complexChapter 5. Pentalogy of CantrellChapter 6. Various syndromes and disorders associated with omphaloceleChapter 7. Atlas and casesIndex
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 30, 2007
- Imprint: Elsevier
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Chih-Ping Chen
Affiliations and expertise
Chairman, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mackay Memorial Hospital; Professor, National Yang-Ming University, China Medical University, Yuanpei University of Science and Technology, and Taiwan Asia University