Three-dimensional sonographic description of the fetal frontal bones and metopic suture

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 618-621

  Faro, C ^a   Benoit, B ^b   Wegrzyn, P ^a   Chaoui, R ^c   Nicolaides, K H ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace   (France)

^c Center for Prenatal Diagnosis and Human Genetics   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound; Craniosynostosis; Frontal bones; Metopic suture

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR FONTANEL; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CRANIAL SUTURE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FRONTAL BONE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SKULL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CRANIAL SUTURES; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FRONTAL BONE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 28144442513     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.1997     Document Type: Article

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