Model predicted Down syndrome detection rates for nuchal translucency screening in twin pregnancies

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 426-429

  Maymon, Ron ^a   Rosen, Hadar ^a   Baruchin, Ohad ^a   Herman, Arie ^a   Cuckle, Howard ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Columbia University School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Down syndrome; Nuchal translucency; Risk; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOWN SYNDROME; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DISEASES IN TWINS; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NECK; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 79954959105     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.2669     Document Type: Article

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