Feasibility of Nuchal Translucency in Triplet Pregnancies

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 501-504

  Maslovitz, Sharon ^a,b   Yaron, Yuval ^a   Fait, Gideon ^a   Gull, Ilan ^a   Wolman, Igal ^a   Jaffa, Ariel ^a   Hartoov, Joseph ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b LIS MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Feasibility; Nuchal translucency; Singleton; Triplets

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCREENING; ULTRASONIC EFFECTS;

NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY; REGRESSION CURVES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 2442532977     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2004.23.4.501     Document Type: Article

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