The human fetal venous system: Normal embryologic, anatomic, and physiologic characteristics and developmental abnormalities

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1145-1158

  Fasouliotis, Sozos J ^a   Achiron, Reuven ^a   Kivilevitch, Zvi ^a   Yagel, Simcha ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anomalies; Fetal venous system; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA REDUCTION; DOPPLER EFFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ANATOMY; EMBRYOLOGY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

FETAL MONITORING;

DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMBRYOLOGY; FETUS; FETUS (ANATOMY); FETUS CIRCULATION; HUMAN; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; UMBILICAL VEIN; VEIN MALFORMATION; VENOUS CIRCULATION; YOLK SAC;

EID: 0036789375     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2002.21.10.1145     Document Type: Review

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