Pulmonary artery diameters in healthy fetuses from 19 to 40 weeks' gestation

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 309-316

  Ruano, Rodrigo ^a   Maeda, Mariane De Fátima Yukie ^a   Niigaki, Juliana Ikeda ^a   Zugaib, Marcelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fetal lung; Pulmonary artery diameter; Pulmonary hypoplasia

Indexed keywords

LINEAR REGRESSION; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; NOMOGRAMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ESTIMATED FETAL WEIGHT (EFW); FETAL LUNG; PULMONARY ARTERY DIAMETER; PULMONARY HYPOPLASIA;

PULMONARY DISEASES;

ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; DEVICE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS LUNG; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOMOGRAM; PULMONARY ARTERY;

EID: 33847649245     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2007.26.3.309     Document Type: Article

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