Echogenic dilated bowel loops before 21 weeks' gestation: A new entity

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 833-837

  Grignon, Andrée ^a   Dubois, Josée ^a   Ouellet, Marie Caroline ^a   Garel, Laurent ^a   Oligny, Luc L ^a   Potier, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; ANUS ATRESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORDOCENTESIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS OUTCOME; FOLLOW UP; GASTROSCHISIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTESTINE ATRESIA; INTESTINE LOOP; INTESTINE MALFORMATION; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; MALE; MECONIUM PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA;

EID: 0031054049     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.168.3.9057544     Document Type: Article

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