Correlation between fetal cardiac diagnosis by obstetric and pediatric cardiologist sonographers and comparison with postnatal findings

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 392-397

  Meyer Wittkopf, M ^a,b   Cooper, S ^a   Sholler, G ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Echocardiography; Fetal; Prenatal

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; COUNSELING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTNATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; OBSTETRICS; PEDIATRICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0034985588     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0705.2001.00381.x     Document Type: Article

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