Optimal standards for fetal biometry: To each measurement its fitting model

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 396-399

  Pineau, Jean Claude ^a   Thiebaugeorges, Olivier ^b   Guihard Costa, Anne Marie ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Maternite Regionale Universitaire   (France)

Author keywords

Abdominal circumference; Femur length; Fetal growth; Head circumference; Mathematical model; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CIRCUMFERENCE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BODY GROWTH; COMPUTER MODEL; FEMALE; FEMUR; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ABDOMEN; BIOMETRY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 33745055280     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000092473     Document Type: Article

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