Aneuploidy screening: What test should I use?

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 715-718

  Berkowitz, Richard L ^a   Cuckle, Howard S ^b   Wapner, Ronald ^b   D'Alton, Mary E ^b  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN A;

ANEUPLOIDY; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOWN SYNDROME; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MATERNAL AGE; META ANALYSIS; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRISOMY 18; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 33646797055     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000201976.00299.d2     Document Type: Review

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