The impact of fetal renal pelvic diameter on postnatal outcome

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 591-595

  John, Ulrike ^a   Kähler, Christiane ^b   Schulz, Sven ^a   Mentzel, Hans Joachim ^c   Vogt, Susanna ^c   Misselwitz, Joachim ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b Department of Obstetrics ^*  (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fetal; Prenatal diagnosis; Pyelectasis; Renal; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETAL PYELECTASIS; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MALFORMATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY PELVIS; KIDNEY PELVIS DILATATION; KIDNEY PELVIS DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PELVICALYCEAL DILATATION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URETER DILATATION;

DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY PELVIS; PREGNANCY; ROC CURVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 4243180423     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.899     Document Type: Article

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