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Original Articles

Ultrasound screening for fetal anomalies in a single center: diagnostic performances twenty years after the Eurofetus Study

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Pages 6312-6319 | Received 18 May 2020, Accepted 30 Mar 2021, Published online: 28 Apr 2021

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