Clinical significance of early diastolic notch depth: Uterine artery Doppler velocimetry in the third trimester

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 182, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1204-1209

  Park, Yong Won ^a,c   Cho, Jae S ^a   Choi, Hyung M ^a   Kim, Tae Y ^a   Lee, Sung H ^b   Yu, Jerry K ^b   Kim, Jae W ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Southern California Permanente Medical Group   (United States)

^c Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Doppler waveform analysis; Early diastolic notch; Notch depth; Uterine artery

Indexed keywords

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERINE ARTERY;

EID: 0034043869     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mob.2000.104840     Document Type: Article

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