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Fetal akinesia/hypokinesia sequence: prenatal diagnosis and intra-familial variability.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Nov 1993
Bacino C A, Platt L D, Garber A, Carlson D, Pepkowitz S, Lachman R S, Sharony R, Rimoin D L, Graham J M
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Intrauterine fetal movement plays a key role in normal embryonic and fetal development (Moessinger, 1983). When movement is absent or decreased, abnormal development takes place which can be appreciated in newborns and/or fetuses with the fetal akinesia/hypokinesia sequence. This sequence is caused by a number of heterogeneous entities which result in decreased fetal movements by the action of intrinsic or...
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