Correlation between prenatal ultrasound and fetal autopsy findings in fetal anomalies terminated in the second trimester

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 457-462

  Akgun, Hulya ^a,b   Basbug, Mustafa ^a   Ozgun, Mahmut Tuncay ^a   Canoz, Ozlem ^a   Tokat, Fatma ^a   Murat, Nurcan ^a   Ozturk, Figen ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

^b Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fetal anomalies; Prenatal diagnosis; Prenatal ultrasound: fetal autopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MALFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY ANOMALY; LUNG MALFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; URINARY TRACT MALFORMATION; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; ABORTION; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ABORTION, EUGENIC; ADULT; AUTOPSY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 34347230889     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.1710     Document Type: Article

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