Ultrasound visualization of fetal membrane detachment at the uterine cervix: The 'moon sign' [1]

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 431-432

  Devlieger, R ^a,b   Scherjon, S A ^a   Oepkes, D ^a   Meerman, R ^a   Timmerman, D ^b   Vandenbussche, F P H A ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION; FETOSCOPY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; UTERINE CERVIX;

ADULT; CERVIX UTERI; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0142042780     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.234     Document Type: Letter

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