Anthropometric charts for infants with trisomies 21, 18, or 13 born between 22 weeks gestation and term: The VON charts

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 158 A, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 322-332

  Boghossian, Nansi S ^a   Horbar, Jeffrey D ^b,c   Murray, Jeffrey C ^a   Carpenter, Joseph H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Autosomal trisomies; Down syndrome; Edward syndrome; Growth curves; Head circumference for gestational age; Intrauterine growth; Neonatal anthropometric charts; Patau syndrome; Trisomy 13; Trisomy 18; Trisomy 21; Weight for gestational age

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL ERROR; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21; VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK CHART;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CEPHALOMETRY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 21; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; TRISOMY;

EID: 84856219545     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.34423     Document Type: Article

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