Postmortem MR imaging of the fetal and stillborn central nervous system

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 22-27

  Griffiths, Paul D ^a   Variend, Dick ^b   Evans, Margaret ^b   Jones, Angharad ^a   Wilkinson, Iain D ^a   Paley, Martyn N J ^a   Whitby, Etspeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; FEMALE; FETUS; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEURORADIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STILLBIRTH; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION;

AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETAL HYPOXIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; PREGNANCY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0037240646     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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