Isolated mild fetal ventriculomegaly

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Wyldes, M ^a   Watkinson, M ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM HEARTLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHOROID PLEXUS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONGENITAL INFECTION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONSULTATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DELIVERY; DISABILITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FETAL VENTRICULOMEGALY; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KARYOTYPING; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; LIQUID; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICINE; PARENT; PARENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERINATAL MORTALITY; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; RISK; SCREENING; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 1642574424     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 13592998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.89.1.f9     Document Type: Review

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