Current concepts of Down syndrome screening tests in assisted reproduction twin pregnancies: Another double trouble

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 746-750

  Maymon, Ron ^a   Neeman, Ortal ^a   Shulman, Adrian ^b   Rosen, Hadar ^a,b   Herman, Arie ^a  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Assisted conception; Down syndrome screening; Prenatal screening; Twin pregnancies

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOWN SYNDROME; FACIAL BONE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; TWIN PREGNANCY;

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; NECK; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTERS; PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN-A; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TWINS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 26044449605     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1259     Document Type: Review

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