Oligohydramnios: Use and misuse in clinical management

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 411-419

  Sherer, D M ^a   Langer, O ^a  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION; AMNION FLUID; CESAREAN SECTION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DYE DILUTION CURVE; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS OUTCOME; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LABOR INDUCTION; MATERNAL DISEASE; MICTURITION; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY; PATHOGENESIS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0035174052     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0705.2001.00570.x     Document Type: Editorial

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