Intraabdominal fetal echogenic masses: A practical guide to diagnosis and management

Radiographics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 633-645

  McNamara, Ann ^a   Levine, Deborah ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS HYDROPS; FETUS LIVER; GALLSTONE; HAMARTOMA; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; LIVER CIRCULATION; MECONIUM; MECONIUM PERITONITIS; REVIEW; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SPINE MALFORMATION; STOMACH; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 20444474030     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.253045124     Document Type: Review

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