Intermittent 'double bubble' sign in a case of congenital pyloric atresia

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 334-338

  Yoshizato, Toshiyuki ^a   Satoh, Shoji ^b   Taguchi, Tomoaki ^b,c   Suita, Sachiyo ^c   Nakano, Hitoo ^d  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYUSHU MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Department of Pediatric Surgery ^*  (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antenatal diagnosis; Congenital pyloric atresia; Human fetus; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL PYLORIC ATRESIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DUODENUM OBSTRUCTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; GASTRODUODENOSTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYDRAMNIOS; KARYOTYPING; NEWBORN; PARITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH TUMOR;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; POLYHYDRAMNIOS; PREGNANCY; PYLORIC STENOSIS; PYLORUS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0036979619     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000065380     Document Type: Article

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