Prenatal counselling of small bowel atresia: Watch the fluid!

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 214-217

  Iacobelli, Barbara D ^a   Zaccara, Antonio ^a   Spirydakis, Ioannis ^a   Giorlandino, Claudio ^b   Capolupo, Irma ^a   Nahom, Antonella ^a   Bagolan, Pietro ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Artemisia Medical Center   (Italy)

Author keywords

Polyhydramnios; Prenatal diagnosis; Small bowel atresia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYDRAMNIOS; INTESTINE ATRESIA; LENGTH OF STAY; NEWBORN SURGERY; PARAMETER; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREDICTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION;

COUNSELING; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINAL ATRESIA; INTESTINE, SMALL; LENGTH OF STAY; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; POLYHYDRAMNIOS; PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 33645390137     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1381     Document Type: Article

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