Fetal thymic involution: A sonographic marker of the fetal inflammatory response syndrome

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 153-159

  Di Naro, Edoardo ^a   Cromi, Antonella ^b   Ghezzi, Fabio ^b   Raio, Luigi ^c   Uccella, Stefano ^b   D'Addario, Vincenzo ^a   Loverro, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fetal inflammatory response syndrome; Fetal thymus; Intra amniotic infection; Preterm labor

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; ORGAN SIZE; PLACENTA; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMUS; UMBILICAL CORD;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THYMUS GLAND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 29544451901     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2005.05.036     Document Type: Article

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