Nontraditional Sonographic Pearls in Estimating Gestational Age

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 154-160

  Gottlieb, Amy G ^a   Galan, Henry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

distal femoral epiphysis; epiphyseal ossification centers; fetal growth restriction; gestational age; IUGR; transverse cerebellar diameter

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID; BRAIN SIZE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMUR; FEMUR EPIPHYSIS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MEASUREMENT; OSSIFICATION; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

BIOMETRY; CROWN-RUMP LENGTH; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETUS; FOOT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 43049181369     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2008.02.003     Document Type: Review

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