Sonological appearance of idiopathic arterial calcification in fetus: A rare case

Idiopathic arterial calcification (IAC) is a rare disease characterized by extensive arterial wall calcification. This condition is almost always fatal. A total of 162 cases have been reported to date, with most cases diagnosed postnatally and less than 13 cases having been suspected antenatally. Th...

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Autores principales: Nagaraj, BR, Jain, Prakash, Thomas, Deepu Alex, Raghu, M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Obsetric Imaging
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2766880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881097
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.54876
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author Nagaraj, BR
Jain, Prakash
Thomas, Deepu Alex
Raghu, M
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Raghu, M
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description Idiopathic arterial calcification (IAC) is a rare disease characterized by extensive arterial wall calcification. This condition is almost always fatal. A total of 162 cases have been reported to date, with most cases diagnosed postnatally and less than 13 cases having been suspected antenatally. This case report describes a case of IAC detected antenatally with USG at 28 weeks' gestation.
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spelling pubmed-27668802009-11-20 Sonological appearance of idiopathic arterial calcification in fetus: A rare case Nagaraj, BR Jain, Prakash Thomas, Deepu Alex Raghu, M Indian J Radiol Imaging Obsetric Imaging Idiopathic arterial calcification (IAC) is a rare disease characterized by extensive arterial wall calcification. This condition is almost always fatal. A total of 162 cases have been reported to date, with most cases diagnosed postnatally and less than 13 cases having been suspected antenatally. This case report describes a case of IAC detected antenatally with USG at 28 weeks' gestation. Medknow Publications 2009-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2766880/ /pubmed/19881097 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.54876 Text en © Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Nagaraj, BR
Jain, Prakash
Thomas, Deepu Alex
Raghu, M
Sonological appearance of idiopathic arterial calcification in fetus: A rare case
title Sonological appearance of idiopathic arterial calcification in fetus: A rare case
title_full Sonological appearance of idiopathic arterial calcification in fetus: A rare case
title_fullStr Sonological appearance of idiopathic arterial calcification in fetus: A rare case
title_full_unstemmed Sonological appearance of idiopathic arterial calcification in fetus: A rare case
title_short Sonological appearance of idiopathic arterial calcification in fetus: A rare case
title_sort sonological appearance of idiopathic arterial calcification in fetus: a rare case
topic Obsetric Imaging
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2766880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19881097
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