The clinical significance of antenatal detection of discordant umbilical arteries

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 86-91

  Raio, Luigi ^a   Ghezzi, Fabio ^b   Di Naro, Edoardo ^b   Gomez, Ricardo ^b   Saile, Günter ^b   Brühwiler, Hermann ^b  

^a Kantonsspital Muensterlingen   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS OUTCOME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL CORD; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0031982761     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(97)00543-7     Document Type: Article

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