Comparison of serum markers in first-trimester Down syndrome screening

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1192-1199

  Canick, Jacob A ^b   Lambert Messerlian, Geralyn M ^b   Palomaki, Glenn E ^b   Neveux, Louis M ^b   Malone, Fergal D ^a   Ball, Robert H ^b   Nyberg, David A ^b   Comstock, Christine H ^b   Bukowski, Radek ^b   Saade, George R ^b   Berkowitz, Richard L ^b   Dar, Pe'er ^b   Dugoff, Lorraine ^b   Craigo, Sabrina D ^b   Timor Tritsch, Ilan E ^b   Carr, Stephen R ^b   Wolfe, Honor M ^b   D'Alton, Mary E ^b  

^a ROTUNDA HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; INHIBIN A; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN A;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE MARKER; DOWN SYNDROME; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INHIBINS; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN-A; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 33750522672     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000241095.19638.f2     Document Type: Article

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