Risks for fetal abnormalities after very and moderately elevated AF-AFPs

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 837-841

  Crandall, Barbara F ^a,b   Chua, Carol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AChE; AFP; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MALFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABNORMALITIES; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; AMNIOTIC FLUID; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0030929381     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199709)17:9<837::AID-PD157>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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