Absence of a relationship between umbilical cord thickness and coiling patterns

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1491-1496

  Predanic, Mladen ^a   Perni, Sriram C ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coiling; Coiling index; Sonography; Umbilical cord

Indexed keywords

PATIENT MONITORING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

COILING; COILING INDEX; PREGNANCY; SONOGRAPHY; UMBILICAL CORD;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LABOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THICKNESS; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 27744509648     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2005.24.11.1491     Document Type: Article

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