Routine ultrasound screening and detection of congenital anomalies outside a university setting

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1042-

  Nakling, Jakob ^a   Backe, Bjørn ^b  

^a Oppland Central Hospital   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Chromosomal aberration; Congenital anomalies; Perinatal morbidity; Routine ultrasound screening

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ANENCEPHALUS; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; CLEFT LIP PALATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DUODENUM ATRESIA; DWARFISM; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; FOOT MALFORMATION; GASTROSCHISIS; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYPOSPADIAS; KIDNEY AGENESIS; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; LUNG MALFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MIDWIFE; OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY; OMPHALOCELE; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; PES EQUINOVARUS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRENATAL SCREENING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY MALFORMATION; SACROCOCCYX TERATOMA; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SITUS INVERSUS; SPINA BIFIDA; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21; TRISOMY 7; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 27644570754     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0001-6349.2005.00785.x     Document Type: Article

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