Detection of structural abnormalities in the first trimester using ultrasound

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 341-353

  Blaas, Harm Gerd Karl ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

embryo; first trimester; foetus; sonoembryology; structural abnormalities

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; BONE DYSPLASIA; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONJOINED TWINS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECTOPIA CORDIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENCEPHALOCELE; FETUS (ANATOMY); FETUS MALFORMATION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GASTROINTESTINAL MALFORMATION; GROWTH RATE; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; KYPHOSCOLIOSIS; MECKEL SYNDROME; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; POLYDACTYLY; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RHOMBENCEPHALON; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SKULL DEFECT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; VAN DER WOUDE SYNDROME;

EMBRYO; FIRST TRIMESTER; FOETUS; SONOEMBRYOLOGY; STRUCTURAL ABNORMALITIES;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84897056003     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: 15321932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2013.11.004     Document Type: Article

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