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 ...

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 ...

together with an ultrasound measurement of the nuchal fold in the second trimester. [3] The authors determined gestational age-specific normal median values of the nuchal fold by retrospectively ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...