Intrauterine intestinal obstruction due to fetal midgut volvulus: A report of two cases

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 38-40

  Molvarec, Attila ^a,b   Bábinszki, Ágota ^a   Kovács, Kálmán ^a   Tóth, Ferenc ^a   Szalay, János ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b NONE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Fetal intestinal obstruction; Fetal midgut volvulus; Prenatal diagnosis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTESTINE MALROTATION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MIDGUT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLVULUS;

ADULT; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GASTROENTEROSTOMY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINAL VOLVULUS; MALE; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 33845748626     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000095841     Document Type: Article

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