Volume and vascularity of the yolk sac studied by three-dimensional ultrasound and color Doppler

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 91-96

  Kupesic, Sanja ^a   Kurjak, Asim ^a   Ivančić Košuta, Mirjana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b Department of Anatomy   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Gestational sac volume; Three dimensional ultrasound; Transvaginal color and pulsed Doppler ultrasound; Yolk sac vascularity; Yolk sac volume

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FETUS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND; VASCULARIZATION; YOLK SAC;

FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; YOLK SAC;

EID: 0032918038     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPM.1999.010     Document Type: Article

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