Umbilical Doppler Waveforms and Placental Villous Angiogenesis in Pregnancies Complicated by Fetal Growth Restriction

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 499-503

  Todros, Tullia ^a   Sciarrone, Andrea ^a   Piccoli, Ettore ^a   Guiot, Caterina ^b   Kaufmann, Peter ^b   Kingdom, John ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; PLACENTA VILLUS; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; UTERINE ARTERY;

CHORIONIC VILLI; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 0033012518     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006250-199904000-00006     Document Type: Article

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