Abnormal umbilical cord dopplers may predict impending demise in fetuses with sacrococcygeal teratoma: A report of 2 cases

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 428-431

  Olutoye, Oluyinka O ^a   Johnson, Mark P ^a   Coleman, Beverly G ^a   Crombleholme, Timothy M ^a   Adzick, N Scott ^a   Flake, Alan W ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetus; Hydrops; Sacrococcygeal teratoma; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS (ANATOMY); FETUS DEATH; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HYDROPS; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PLACENTA DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACROCOCCYX TUMOR; TERATOMA; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; TWINS; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL CORD;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; TERATOMA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 0142258897     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000073137     Document Type: Article

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