Prenatal diagnosis of intra-atrial cardiac echogenic foci

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 968-970

  Petrikovsky, Boris ^a   Klein, Victor ^a   Herrera, Micaela ^a  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac atrium; Echogenic focus; Fetal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS KARYOTYPING; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0031752870     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199809)18:9<968::AID-PD375>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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