How Important is a Cardiac Echogenic Focus in a Routine Fetal Examination?

Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 459-461

  Carriço, Ana ^a,b   Matias, Alexandra ^a   Areias, José Carlos ^a  

^a Porto School of Nursing   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL DE SÃO JOÃO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Congenital heart defects; Echogenic focus; Fetal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; PATIENT REFERRAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TRISOMY 21; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; FETAL MONITORING; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 2442438709     PISSN: 08702551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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