Variability in dilatation of the fetal renal pelvis during a bladder filling cycle

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 750-755

  Damen Elias, H A M ^a,c   Stigter, R H ^b   De Jong, T P V M ^a   Visser, G H A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b DEVENTER HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bladder; Fetal; Prenatal diagnosis; Pyelectasis; Renal; Ultrasonography; Urinary tract; Vesicoureteric reflux

Indexed keywords

ANTEROPOSTERIOR DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLADDER CAPACITY; BLADDER FILLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY PELVIS DILATATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MICTURITION; PARAMETER; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELECTASIS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY PELVIS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; URINARY BLADDER; URINATION; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 10644269928     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.1782     Document Type: Article

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