Impact of chorionicity on first-trimester nuchal translucency screening in ART twin pregnancies

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 722-725

  Flock A ^a   Reinsberg, J ^a   Berg, C ^a,b   Gembruch, U ^a   Geipel, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCEPTION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; THICKNESS; TWIN PREGNANCY; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME;

ADULT; CHORION; FEMALE; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; HUMANS; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY, TWIN; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84881312785     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.4107     Document Type: Article

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