The usefulness of ultrasound assessment of amniotic fluid in predicting adverse outcome in prolonged pregnancy: A prospective blinded observational study

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 110, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 989-994

  Morris, J M ^a,c   Thompson, K ^a   Smithey, J ^a   Gaffney, G ^a   Cooke, I ^a   Chamberlain, P ^a   Hope, P ^a   Altman, D ^b   MacKenzie, I Z ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNION FLUID; APGAR SCORE; ARTERIAL PH; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MECONIUM ASPIRATION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PERINATAL DEATH; PH MEASUREMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLONGED PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AMNIOTIC FLUID; ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; COHORT STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL DISTRESS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MECONIUM ASPIRATION SYNDROME; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, PROLONGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0242285546     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2003.02417.x     Document Type: Article

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