Screening infants with an isolated single umbilical artery for renal anomalies: Nonsense?

Early Human Development

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 567-570

  Doornebal, N ^a,b   de Vries, T W ^a   Bos, A F ^b   de Vries, N K S ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL CENTER LEEUWARDEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Infants; Renal ultrasonography; Single Umbilical Artery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INFANT; KIDNEY CALCIFICATION; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALFORMATION SYNDROME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; SCREENING TEST; SINGLE UMBILICAL ARTERY; STENOSIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ABNORMALITIES; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; NEONATAL SCREENING; NETHERLANDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 34548483706     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2006.11.002     Document Type: Article

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