Ultrasound screening in second and third trimester of pregnancy: An update

Acta Biomedica de l'Ateneo Parmense

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 229-232

  Verrotti, Carla ^a   Caforio, Eleonora ^a   Gramellini, Dandolo ^a   Nardelli, Giovanni Battista ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fetal malformations; Screening; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANENCEPHALUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENCEPHALOCELE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MALFORMATION; GESTATION PERIOD; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MULTICYSTIC DYSPLASTIC KIDNEY; POSTNATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL SCREENING; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SHORT SURVEY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; ULTRASOUND; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL DISORDER; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 41749112037     PISSN: 03924203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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