Ultrasound detection of fetal anomalies in conjunction with first-trimester nuchal translucency screening: A feasibility study

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 193, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2005, Pages 1260-1265

  McAuliffe, Fionnuala M ^a,b   Fong, Katherine W ^a   Toi, Ants ^a   Chitayat, David ^c   Keating, Sarah ^c   Johnson, Jo Ann ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fetus; First trimester; Nuchal translucency; Prenatal diagnosis; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BLADDER; CHROMOSOME DISORDER; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FACE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MALFORMATION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; LIMB; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEUROANATOMY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; SKULL; SPINE; STANDARDIZATION; STOMACH; TIME; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; UMBILICAL CORD;

ABNORMALITIES; CROWN-RUMP LENGTH; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 24644515842     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2005.06.075     Document Type: Conference Paper

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