Human prenatal nasal bone lengths: Normal standards and length values in fetuses with cleft lip and cleft palate

Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 165-170

  Hansen, Lene ^a   Skovgaard, Lene Theil ^b   Nolting, Dorrit ^a   Hansen, Birgit Fischer ^c   Kjær, Inger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cleft lip and palate; Human; Nasal bone; Prenatal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; FACIAL BONE; FETUS; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STANDARD;

ABORTED FETUS; CEPHALOMETRY; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CROWN-RUMP LENGTH; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; NASAL BONE; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 14844355220     PISSN: 10556656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1597/03-094.1     Document Type: Article

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