Fetal spine ossification: The gender and individual differences illustrated by ultrasonography

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 733-738

  Vignolo, M ^a,b   Ginocchio, G ^a   Parodi, A ^a   Torrisi, C ^a   Pistorio, A ^a   Venturini, P L ^a   Aicardi, G ^a   De Biasio, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Pregnancy; Sacral; Spinal length; Ultrasonography; Vertebrae ossification

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DATA REDUCTION; DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; RADIOLOGY;

EMBRYOLOGISTS; FETAL SPINE OSSIFICATION; OSSIFICATION CENTER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACRAL SPINAL CORD; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINE; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; SEX FACTORS; SPINE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 20144369503     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2005.02.013     Document Type: Article

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