Assessment of umbilical cord coiling during the routine fetal sonographic anatomic survey in the second trimester

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 185-192

  Predanic, Mladen ^a   Perni, Sriram C ^a   Chasen, Stephen T ^a   Baergen, Rebecca N ^a   Chervenak, Frank A ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coiling index; Sonography; Umbilical coiling

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DATA ACQUISITION; PATIENT MONITORING; SURVEYS;

SONOGRAPHY; UMBILICAL COILING INDEX (UCI); UMBILICAL CORDS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS (ANATOMY); FETUS MALFORMATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 12744253864     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2005.24.2.185     Document Type: Review

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