Prenatal diagnosis of vein of Galen aneurysmal malformation: Report of two cases with proposal for prognostic indices

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 972-977

  Yuval, Yefet ^a   Lerner, Asaf ^a   Lipitz, Shlomo ^a   Rotstein, Zeev ^a,b   Hegesh, Julius ^a,b   Achiron, Reuwen ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aneurysmal malformations; Prenatal, ultrasound diagnosis; Prognostic indices; Vein of Galen

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA FLOW; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS OUTCOME; GALEN VEIN; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VEIN ANEURYSM;

ADULT; ANEURYSM; CEREBRAL VEINS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROGNOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0030882237     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199710)17:10<972::AID-PD167>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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