Cerebellar Doppler velocimetry in the appropriate- and small-for-gestational-age fetus

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 989-993

  Uerpairojkit, Boonchai ^b   Chan, Linda ^b   Reece, Albert E ^b   Martinez, Edilberto ^b   Mari, Giancarlo ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLACENTA INSUFFICIENCY; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; UMBILICAL ARTERY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBELLUM; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 0029894960     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0029-7844(96)00065-8     Document Type: Article

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