Standards for the quantification of serial changes in Doppler resistance indices from the umbilical arteries

Early Human Development

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-47

  Owen, Philip ^a   Ogston, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Doppler; Longitudinal; Resistance index

Indexed keywords

ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PULSATILE FLOW; REFERENCE VALUE; TIME; UMBILICAL ARTERY;

BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PULSATILE FLOW; REFERENCE VALUES; ULTRASONICS; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0030977055     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3782(97)01873-2     Document Type: Article

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