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Volume 71, Issue 10 , Pages 541-545 , October 2008

Prenatal Diagnosis of Dextrotransposition of the Great Arteries

Jeng-Hsiu Hung
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taipei Branch, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
- National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
- Correspondence to: Dr Jeng-Hsiu Hung, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taipei Branch, 289, Jianguo Road, Xindian City, Taipei 231, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Pi-Tao Huang
- Department of Pediatrics, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
- National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Zen-Chung Weng
- Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
- National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Chih-Yao Chen
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
- National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Kuan-Chong Chao
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
- National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Ming-Jie Yang
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
- National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Jamie Hung
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
- National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Received 10 September 2007 ,Accepted 26 May 2008.

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