Perinatal outcome in fetuses with megacystis in the first half of pregnancy

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 340-344

  Jouannic, Jean Marie ^a   Hyett, Jon A ^a   Pandya, Pranav P ^a   Gulbis, Béatrice ^b   Rodeck, Charles H ^a   Jauniaux, Eric ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early gestation; Fetal megacystis; Urinalysis; Vesicoamniotic shunt; Vesicocentesis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISTENSION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYSTITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FETUS; FETUS BLADDER; FETUS DEATH; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS KARYOTYPING; FOOT MALFORMATION; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYGROMA; KARYOTYPE; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN PERIOD; OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SHUNTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABORTION, EUGENIC; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; URINALYSIS; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0037393729     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.593     Document Type: Article

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