A preliminary study of sonographic grading of fetal intracardiac echogenic foci: Feasibility, reliability and association with aneuploidy

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 123-127

  Wax, J R ^a   Royer, D ^a   Mather, J ^a   Chen, C ^a   Aponte Garca, A ^a   Steinfeld, J D ^a   Ingardia, C J ^a  

^a HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Fetal heart; Papillary muscles

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DOWN SYNDROME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TRISOMY 18; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; PAPILLARY MUSCLES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0034546868     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0705.2000.00206.x     Document Type: Article

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