Shortened fetal long bones: A possible in utero manifestation of placental function

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 553-557

  Zalel, Yaron ^a   Lehavi, Ofer ^a   Schiff, Eyal ^a   Shalmon, Bruria ^a   Cohen, Shlomi ^a   Schulman, Adrian ^a   Achiron, Reuven ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Placental abnormalities; SGA; Short fetal long bones; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LONG BONE; MORPHOLOGY; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; ADULT; BLOOD; CHORION VILLUS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMUR; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; CHORIONIC VILLI; EMBRYO AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS;

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT;

EID: 0035990107     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.364     Document Type: Article

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