Racial differences in first trimester nuchal translucency

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1174-1176

  Huang, Tianhua ^a   Wang, Fu Lin ^b   Boucher, Karen ^a   O'Donnell, Andrea ^a   Rashid, Shamin ^a   Summers, Anne M ^a  

^a NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b Public Health Surveillance and Environmental Health   (Canada)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Nuchal translucency; Prenatal screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE; ETHNICITY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DOWN SYNDROME; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; ONTARIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 37049026927     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1866     Document Type: Article

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