Assessment of placental vascularization by three-dimensional power Doppler "vascular biopsy" in normal pregnancies

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 765-771

  Mercé, Luis T ^a,d   Barco, María J ^b   Bau, Santiago ^a   Kupešić, Sanja ^c   Kurjak, Asim ^c  

^a International Ruber Hospital   (Spain)

^b Lozano Blesa Clinical Hospital   (Spain)

^c St Ghost Hospital   (Croatia)

^d NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BIOPSY; BIPARIETAL DISTANCE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS WEIGHT; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PLACENTA; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 26244458491     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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