The role of fetal echocardiography in genetic sonography

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 160-172

  DeVore, Greggory R ^a  

^a Fetal Diagnostic Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE MARKER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FETUS; FETUS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SONOGRAPHY; GRAY SCALE ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FUNCTION; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; PATIENT CARE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TRISOMY 21;

EID: 0038305564     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/sper.2003.50015     Document Type: Review

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