Early pregnancy scanning for fetal anomalies-the new standard?

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 199-216

  Katorza, Eldad ^a,b   Achiron, Reuven ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

early pregnancy; fetal anomalies scanning; nuchal translucency; transvaginal sonography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ANENCEPHALUS; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOWN SYNDROME; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENCEPHALOCELE; EXENCEPHALY; EYE MALFORMATION; FACE MALFORMATION; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MALFORMATION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GASTROINTESTINAL MALFORMATION; GASTROSCHISIS; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MICROCEPHALY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; OMPHALOCELE; PENTALOGY OF CANTRELL; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKELETON MALFORMATION; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UMBILICAL HERNIA; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; BONE AND BONES; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FACE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84857607488     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: 15325520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GRF.0b013e3182446ae9     Document Type: Article

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