Maternal ethnic origin and fetal nasal bones at 11-14 weeks of gestation

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 109-112

  Prefumo, Federico ^a   Sairam, Shanthi ^a   Bhide, Amarnath ^a   Penna, Leonie ^a   Hollis, Brian ^a   Thilaganathan, Baskaran ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASIA; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; DISEASE MARKER; DOWN SYNDROME; ECHOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FACIAL BONE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MOTHER; PARITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; TRISOMY 21;

EID: 0442291993     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-0528.2003.00025.x-i1     Document Type: Article

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