What's new in first trimester ultrasound

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 663-679

  Lazarus, Elizabeth ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

CALCULATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO POLARITY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MALFORMATION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; YOLK SAC;

EID: 0043245998     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-8389(03)00039-3     Document Type: Review

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