Screening for structural fetal anomalies during the nuchal translucency ultrasound examination

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 181.e1-181.e5

  Weiner, Zeev ^a,b   Goldstein, Israel ^a   Bombard, Allan ^b,c   Applewhite, Liat ^b   Itzkovits Eldor, Joseph ^a  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SHARP HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

nuchal translucency; screening; structural congenital anomalies

Indexed keywords

ACRANIA; ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM AGENESIS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT LIP PALATE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL SERUM; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; OMPHALOCELE; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PRUNE BELLY SYNDROME; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SKULL MALFORMATION; TRISOMY 21;

EID: 34547572643     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2007.03.057     Document Type: Article

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