Single umbilical artery and its siding in the second trimester of pregnancy: Relation to chromosomal defects

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 327-331

  Lubusky, Marek ^a   Dhaifalah, Ishraq ^a   Prochazka, Martin ^a   Hyjanek, Jiri ^a   Mickova, Ivana ^a   Vomackova, Katherine ^a   Santavy, Jiri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OLOMOUC   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Chromosomal defect; Prenatal diagnosis; Second trimester; Single umbilical artery; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS KARYOTYPING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SINGLE UMBILICAL ARTERY; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 21; UMBILICAL ARTERY;

AMNIOCENTESIS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRISOMY; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 34247096463     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1672     Document Type: Article

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