Fetal spinal anomalies in a first-trimester sonographic screening program for aneuploidy

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 107-114

  Sepulveda, Waldo ^a,b   Wong, Amy E ^a   Fauchon, David E ^a  

^a CLÍNICA LAS CONDES   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Body stalk anomaly; Fetal anomalies; First trimester ultrasound; Kyphoscoliosis; Prenatal diagnosis; Spina bifida; VACTERL association

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS MONITORING; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INIENCEPHALY; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; KYPHOSCOLIOSIS; LIMB MALFORMATION; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACROCOCCYX TERATOMA; SCREENING; SPINA BIFIDA; SPINE MALFORMATION; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME; VERTEBRA MALFORMATION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PREGNANCY; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; SPINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 78650836902     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.2608     Document Type: Article

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