Four years experience of first‐trimester nuchal translucency screening for fetal aneuploidies with increasing regional availability

Abstract

Application of a nuchal translucency thickness cutoff of 2.5 mm is highly efficient for the screening of fetal aneuploidies at 10-12 weeks. This efficiency can be maintained by increasing the regional availability of nuchal translucency screening through the inclusion of newly-trained hospital sonographers.

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