Postmortem MR imaging of the fetus: An adjunct or a replacement for conventional autopsy?

Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 475-483

  Whitby, Elspeth H ^a   Paley, Martyn N ^a   Cohen, Marta ^b   Griffiths, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Biopsy; Fetus; MRI; Perinatal; Postmortem

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FETUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 23944465399     PISSN: 1744165X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.siny.2005.05.006     Document Type: Article

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