The assessment of fetal behavior in early pregnancy: Comparison between 2D and 4D sonographic scanning

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 406-414

  Andonotopo, Wiku ^a,c   Medic, Marijana ^b   Salihagic Kadic, Aida ^b   Milenkovic, Dragan ^c   Maiz, Nerea ^d   Scazzocchio, Elena ^d  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Indonesia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c Sveti Duh General Hospital   (Croatia)

^d INSTITUT UNIVERSITARI DEXEUS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fetal movements; Four dimensional ultrasound; Motor behavior; Motor development; Normal pregnacy; Two dimensional ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MONITORING; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HICCUP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VIDEORECORDING;

FEMALE; FETAL MOVEMENT; FETUS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 24944493647     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 03005577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPM.2005.073     Document Type: Article

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