Age-related changes of the human fetal kidney size

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 182, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 193-200

  Vlajković, Slobodan ^a   Vasović, Ljiljana ^a   Daković Bjelaković, Marija ^a   Čukuranović, Rade ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Fetal kidney; Kidney dimensions; Kidney volume

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY SIZE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORPHOLOGY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33747445556     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000093968     Document Type: Article

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