False-positive rate in prenatal diagnosis of surgical anomalies

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 826-829

  Borsellino, Alessandro ^a   Zaccara, Antonio ^a   Nahom, Antonella ^a   Trucchi, Alessandro ^a   Aite, Lucia ^a   Giorlandino, Claudio ^b   Bagolan, Pietro ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Artemisia Medical Center   (Italy)

Author keywords

False positive rate; Prenatal ultrasound diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FETUS; FOLLOW UP; GASTROSCHISIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG MALFORMATION; LUNG SEQUESTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MESENTERY CYST; NEWBORN; OMPHALOCELE; OVARY CYST; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; THORAX MALFORMATION;

ABNORMALITIES; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 33645287010     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2005.12.024     Document Type: Article

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