Early Transvaginal Fetal Orbital Measurements: A Screening Tool for Aneuploidy?

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1201-1205

  Rosati, Paolo ^b   Guariglia, Lorenzo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aneuploidies; Orbits; Prenatal diagnosis; Transvaginal sonography

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; DATA REDUCTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PATIENT TREATMENT;

SONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR DISTANCE; BIOMETRY; BIPARIETAL DISTANCE; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HYPOTELORISM; INTEROCULAR DISTANCE; KARYOTYPE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL DIAMETER; PARAMETER; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL SCREENING; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21;

EID: 0242291028     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2003.22.11.1201     Document Type: Article

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