The resistance index in the fetal middle cerebral artery by gestational age and ventricle size in a normal population

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1203-1207

  Zalel, Yaron ^a,b   Almog, Benny ^a   Seidman, Daniel S ^a   Achiron, Reuven ^a   Lidor, Arie ^a   Gamzu, Ronni ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COHORT STUDIES; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0036898794     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(02)02388-8     Document Type: Article

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