Comparative changes in uterine artery blood flow waveforms in singleton and twin pregnancies

Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 165-169

  Chen, Qian ^a   Izumi, Akio ^a   Minakami, Hisanori ^a   Sato, Ikuo ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasound; Flow velocity waveform; Twin pregnancy; Uterine artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PLACENTA; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PLACENTA PERFUSION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWIN PREGNANCY; UTERINE ARTERY; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; ARTERIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULSATILE FLOW; TWINS; UTERUS;

EID: 2642693705     PISSN: 03787346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000009948     Document Type: Article

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