Umbilical cord diameter at 11-14 weeks of gestation: Relationship to nuchal translucency, ductus venous blood flow and chromosomal defects

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 390-395

  Axt Fliedner, R ^a   Schwarze, A ^a   Kreiselmaier, P ^a   Krapp, M ^a   Smrcek, J ^a   Diedrich, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chromosomal abnormalities; First trimester; Umbilical cord

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; AMNIOCENTESIS; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; DUCTUS VENOSUS; FETUS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KARYOTYPING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL CORD;

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CROWN-RUMP LENGTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL CORD; VEINS;

EID: 33745044024     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000092472     Document Type: Article

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