Effect of Prenatal Ultrasound Screening on Perinatal Outcome

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 329, Issue 12, 1993, Pages 821-827

  Ewigman, Bernard G ^a   Crane, James P ^b   Frigoletto, Fredric D ^c   Lefevre, Michael L ^a   Bain, Raymond P ^d   Mcnellis, Donald ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Tulane University School of Medicine   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLACENTA DISORDER; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0027197527     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199309163291201     Document Type: Article

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