Early first-trimester free-β-hCG and PAPP-A serum distributions in monochorionic and dichorionic twins

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 64-69

  Prats, Pilar ^a   Rodríguez, Ignacio ^a   Nicolau, Joan ^a   Comas, Carmina ^a  

^a INSTITUT UNIVERSITARI DEXEUS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chorionicity; Free hCG; PAPP A; Screening; Trisomy 21; Twins

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN A;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DICHORIONIC TWINS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FETUS MONITORING; FETUS WEIGHT; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; MONOCHORIONIC TWINS; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TWIN PREGNANCY; TWINS;

ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY-ASSOCIATED PLASMA PROTEIN-A; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84857486376     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.2902     Document Type: Article

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