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... > Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Diagnostic Techniques, Obstetrical and Gynecological > Prenatal Diagnosis > Ultrasonography, Prenatal > Nuchal Translucency Measurement
... > Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Diagnostic Imaging > Ultrasonography > Ultrasonography, Prenatal > Nuchal Translucency Measurement

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Nuchal Translucency Measurement  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Fold Measurement, Nuchal
  • Fold Measurements, Nuchal
  • Fold Screening, Nuchal
  • Fold Screenings, Nuchal
  • Measurement, Nuchal Fold
  • Measurements, Nuchal Fold
  • Nuchal Fold Measurement
  • Nuchal Fold Measurements
  • Nuchal Fold Screening
  • Nuchal Fold Screenings
  • Nuchal Translucency Screening
  • Nuchal Translucency Screenings
  • Screening, Nuchal Fold
  • Screenings, Nuchal Fold

Scope note

  • A prenatal ultrasonography measurement of the soft tissue behind the fetal neck. Either the translucent area below the skin in the back of the fetal neck (nuchal translucency) or the distance between occipital bone to the outer skin line (nuchal fold) is measured.

History note

  • 2005

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D048208

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