The value of minor ultrasound markers for fetal aneuploidy

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 183-191

  Sepulveda, Waldo ^a   Lopez Tenorio, Jaime ^a  

^a CLÍNICA LAS CONDES   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FETUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; ULTRASOUND;

ANEUPLOIDY; CHOROID PLEXUS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; CYSTS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL HEART; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; PELVIC BONES; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0034920782     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001703-200104000-00014     Document Type: Review

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