Ultrasonographic fetal weight estimation: Accuracy of formulas and accuracy of examiners by birth weight from 500 to 5000 g

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 155-161

  Kurmanavicius, Juozas ^a   Burkhardt, Tilo ^a   Wisser, Josef ^a   Huch, Renate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Estimated fetal weight; Reliability; Ultrasound biometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAMPBELL FORMULA; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS WEIGHT; HADLOCK FORMULA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROPS; MEASUREMENT; MERZ FORMULA; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SHEPARD FORMULA; WILKIN FORMULA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SWITZERLAND; VALIDATION STUDY;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL WEIGHT; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWITZERLAND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 2942659752     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPM.2004.028     Document Type: Article

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