Fetal intrahepatic hyperechogenic foci: Prenatal ultrasound diagnosis and outcome

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 339-342

  Koopman, E ^a   Wladimiroff, J W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fetal hyperechogenic liver foci; Fetal infection; Fetal karyotyping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENCEPHALOCELE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS OUTCOME; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; LIVER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SOLITARY KIDNEY; TRISOMY 18;

ABNORMALITIES; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

PARVO VIRUS;

EID: 0031956656     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199804)18:4<339::AID-PD265>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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