The prospects for multiple-marker screening for preterm delivery: Does transvaginal ultrasound of the cervix have a central role?

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 429-435

  Odibo, A O ^a   Ural, S H ^a   Macones, G A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; COLLAGENASE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTRIOL; FIBRONECTIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; PROTEINASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BLEEDING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE MARKER; EDITORIAL; FUSOBACTERIUM; GENETIC SCREENING; HEREDITY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HYDRAMNIOS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFECTION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MYCOPLASMA; MYOMETRIUM; PATIENT MONITORING; PREDICTION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION; UTERUS CONTRACTION; VAGINITIS;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MASS SCREENING; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VAGINA;

EID: 0036091139     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0705.2002.00703.x     Document Type: Editorial

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