Pulsation of blood flow in the umbilical vein during the second trimester of pregnancy correlated to fetal malformation and chromosomal abberation

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 278-283

  Heyl, Wolfgang ^a,b,c   Funk, Andreas ^a   Reineke, Thorsten ^a   Rath, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c City Hospital of Offenbach

Author keywords

Color Doppler sonography; Fetal chromosomal anomalies; Pulsations of the venous flow spectra; Umbilical vein

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; FETUS MALFORMATION; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KARYOTYPE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL VEIN; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VENOUS CIRCULATION;

EID: 0031755391     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jpme.1998.26.4.278     Document Type: Article

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