Trends in timing of prenatal diagnosis and abortion for fetal chromosomal abnormalities

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 213, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 545.e1-545.e4

  Hume, Heather ^a   Chasen, Stephen T ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

abortion; Down syndrome; noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT); prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CYSTIC LYMPHANGIOMA; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GENERALIZED EDEMA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; TIMING OF PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 18; AMNIOCENTESIS; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; COHORT ANALYSIS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; INDUCED ABORTION; PREGNANCY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TRENDS; TRISOMY;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; CHORIONIC VILLI SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 18; COHORT STUDIES; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TRISOMY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84942294493     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: 10976868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2015.06.008     Document Type: Article

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