The development of the foetal thyroid: In utero ultrasonographic measurements

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 259-264

  Achiron, Reuwen ^a   Rotstein, Zeev ^b   Lipitz, Shlomo ^b   Karasik, Avi ^b   Seidman, Daniel S ^b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID GLAND; THYROID WEIGHT; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0031907107     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1998.00388.x     Document Type: Article

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