Fetal aneuploidy and umbilical cord thickness measured between 14 and 23 weeks' gestational age

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Predanic, Mladen ^a   Perni, Sriram C ^a   Chasen, Stephen ^a   Chervenak, Frank A ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Gestational age; Sonography; Umbilical cord diameter

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; CHROMOSOMES; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH CARE;

CHROMOSOMAL ABNORMALITY; FETUSES; SONOGRAPHIC IMAGES; UMBILICAL CORD;

ULTRASONICS;

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KARYOTYPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOSOMY; NEWBORN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 19244366249     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2004.23.9.1177     Document Type: Article

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