Early fetal echocardiography and anomaly scan in fetuses with increased nuchal translucency

Early Human Development

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 269-272

  Sairam, Shanthi ^a   Carvalho, Julene S ^a,b,c  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit; Congenital; Echocardiography; Fetal; Heart defects; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ARTHROGRYPOSIS; ATRIOVENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT; CEREBELLUM AGENESIS; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOCELE; FETUS; FETUS HYDROPS; FETUS KARYOTYPING; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; TACHYCARDIA;

CLINICAL AUDIT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84859870224     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: 18726232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2012.02.008     Document Type: Review

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