Fetal pyelectasis: Does fetal gender modify the risk of major trisomies?

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 877-879

  Bornstein, Eran ^a   Barnhard, Yoni ^b   Donnenfeld, Alan ^b   Ferber, Asaf ^b   Divon, Michael Y ^b  

^a LENOX HILL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELECTASIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; TRISOMY; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME 21; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DOWN SYNDROME; FETUS DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; GENETICS; KIDNEY PELVIS; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ABNORMALITIES; AMNIOCENTESIS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 21; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY PELVIS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TRISOMY;

EID: 33646118495     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000206717.66776.a9     Document Type: Article

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