Is fetal anatomic assessment on follow-up antepartum sonograms clinically useful?

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1175-1179

  Toy, Eugene C ^a,b,c   Montealegre, Alvaro I ^a,b   Fernandez, Laura P ^c   Harms, Konrad P ^a,b,c   Kaplan, Alan L ^a  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b St Joseph Medical Center   (United States)

^c Southwest Community Health Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalies; Antepartum; Follow up; Sonography

Indexed keywords

GROWTH KINETICS; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PATIENT TREATMENT; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ANOMALIES; ANTEPARTUM; FETAL ANATOMIC SURVEY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADULT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS MALFORMATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY PELVIS DISTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NORMAL HUMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 36649011412     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2007.26.9.1175     Document Type: Article

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