Fetal cardiac asymmetry: A marker for congenital heart disease

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 189-192

  Kirk, Janet S ^a   Comstock, Christine H ^a   Lee, Wesley ^a   Smith, Ramada S ^a   Riggs, Thomas W ^a   Weinhouse, Elliott ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS HEART; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AORTA; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PULMONARY ARTERY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0033081580     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(98)00391-3     Document Type: Article

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