First-and second-trimester maternal serum markers for aneuploidy and adverse obstetric outcomes

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1052-1061

  Dugoff, Lorraine ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; ESTRIOL; INHIBIN A; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN A;

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANEUPLOIDY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOWN SYNDROME; FETUS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL SERUM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SMITH LEMLI OPITZ SYNDROME;

ADULT; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANEUPLOIDY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRIOL; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INHIBINS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN-A; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK ASSESSMENT; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UTERINE ARTERY;

EID: 77951578160     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3181da93da     Document Type: Note

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