Surveillance of growth-retarded fetuses with computerized fetal heart rate monitoring combined with Doppler velocimetry of the umbilical and uterine arteries

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 112-118

  Weiner, Zeev ^a   Farmakides, George ^a   Schulman, Harold ^a   Lopresti, Salvatore ^a   Schneider, Elizabeth ^a  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasonography; fetal growth retardation; fetal monitoring; umbilical arteries

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MONITORING; FETUS OUTCOME; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UTERINE ARTERY;

ADULT; ARTERIES; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL MONITORING; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; UTERUS;

EID: 0030046362     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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