Betamethasone treatment and fetal lung perfusion evaluated with color Doppler energy imaging

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 272-276

  Dubiel, M ^b   Gudmundsson, S ^a   Pirhonen, J ^a   Breborowicz, G H ^b   Marsal, K ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Color Doppler energy; Computer analysis; Corticosteroids; Fetal lung; Tissue perfusion

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; CORTICOSTEROID;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS LUNG; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG ARTERY; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG VEIN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW; VIDEORECORDING;

BETAMETHASONE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG; PREGNANCY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0030656562     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0705.1997.10040272.x     Document Type: Article

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