The utility of detailed first trimester ultrasound examination in abnormal fetal nuchal translucency

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1037-1041

  Bronshtein, Moshe ^a   Zimmer, Etan Z ^a   Blazer, Shraga ^a,b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fetus; Nuchal translucency; Structural anomalies; Transvaginal; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DECISION MAKING; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 21;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRISOMY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 57349164525     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.2119     Document Type: Article

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