Diagnosis of fetal limb abnormalities before 15 weeks

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1009-1019

  Rice, Katherine J ^a   Ballas, Jerasimos ^b   Lai, Edgar ^c   Hartney, Caitlin ^d   Jones, Marilyn C ^e   Pretorius, Dolores H ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Club hand; Fetal limbs; First trimester screening; Trisomy 18

Indexed keywords

BONE; CHROMOSOMES; NEONATAL MONITORING; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

3-DIMENSIONAL SONOGRAPHY; CLUB HAND; FETAL LIMBS; FIRST TRIMESTERS; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSABDOMINAL SONOGRAPHY; TRANSVAGINAL SONOGRAPHY; TRISOMY 18;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; LIMB MALFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 79959612510     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2011.30.7.1009     Document Type: Article

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