Umbilical artery waveforms in triplet and quadruplet pregnancies

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 239-243

  Ezra, Yossef ^a,b   Jones, Julia ^a   Farine, Dan ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Doppler umbilical artery velocimetry; Intrauterine growth restriction; Perinatal mortality; Quadruplet; Triplet; Umbilical artery waveforms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UMBILICAL ARTERY; WAVEFORM;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; QUADRUPLETS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIPLETS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 0032976680     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000010113     Document Type: Article

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