Fetal heart rate and nuchal translucency in detecting chromosomal abnormalities other than down syndrome

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 68-71

  Martinez, Josep M ^a,b   EchevarríA, MóNica ^a,b   Borrell, Antoni ^a,b   Puerto, Bienvenido ^a,b   Ojuel, Julia ^a,b   Fortuny, Albert ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; HUMAN; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21; TURNER SYNDROME;

EID: 0032124865     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: 15339866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00006250-199807000-00015     Document Type: Article

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