Hyperechogenic fetal bowel: A prospective analysis of sixty consecutive cases

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 426-429

  Ghose, Ishika ^a   Mason, Gerald C ^a   Martinez, Delia ^a   Harrison, Karen L ^a   Evans, J Anthony ^a   Ferriman, Emma L ^a   Stringer, Mark D ^a  

^a LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENTEROPATHY; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS DISEASE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INTESTINES; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0034060559     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2000.tb13242.x     Document Type: Article

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