If you’re pregnant, your doctor might have mentioned an NT scan or first-trimester screening ... All unborn babies have a skin fold, called a nuchal fold, at the back of the neck that holds ...

Axial image of the fetal head shows thickening of nuchal fold. Nuchal fold is measured during the second trimester on an axial image slightly off the biparietal diameter plane. The cerebellum ...

This test, also called the Nuchal Fold Scan ... more fluid in the translucent space described above (during the first trimester), cause this space to be larger, indicating potential problems.

The first stage ends when you are 10 centimeters ... Multiple pregnancy is when a woman is carrying more than one baby. Nuchal fold is the skin at the back of the neck (nape).

Saw the gynae yesterday for the 12 week nuchal fold scan and he said that the growth is either a fibroid or a possible cancerous growth so he ordered the cancer marker bloodtests along with the ...

It is uncertain how best to screen pregnant women for the presence of fetal Down's syndrome: to perform first-trimester screening, to perform second-trimester screening, or to use strategies ...

Soft markers for Down syndrome are typically seen during second-trimester ultrasounds ... brain ventricles increased thickness of the nuchal fold (skin on the back of the neck) abnormal arteries ...

The calculated first-trimester risks, biochemical and nuchal-translucency measurements, demographic characteristics, second-trimester biochemical measurements, and outcome data were forwarded to ...

I had a nuchal scan done at 13 weeks of pregnancy which indicated that the fold at the back of my baby's neck was 6.4mm. My dr. recommended that I have an amniosintesis done as the measurement was ...

and can be readily detected during the second-trimester ultrasound. The most commonly studied soft markers of aneuploidy include a thickened nuchal fold, rhizomelic limb shortening, mild fetal ...