Enlarged fetal bladder: Differential diagnosis and outcomes

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 328-334

  Pinette, Michael G ^a   Blackstone, Jacquelyn ^a   Wax, Joseph R ^a   Cartin, Angelina ^a  

^a MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Enlarged fetal bladder; Outcome; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; BLADDER DISTENSION; BLADDER RUPTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYSTOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BLADDER; FETUS MALFORMATION; FETUS MONITORING; HUMAN; NEUROGENIC BLADDER; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SYNDROME; URETHRA OBSTRUCTION; URETHRA VALVE;

ADULT; COLON; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INTESTINES; PERISTALSIS; PREGNANCY; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; URETHRAL OBSTRUCTION; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER, NEUROGENIC;

EID: 0037784046     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.10179     Document Type: Article

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