Predicting neonatal deaths and pulmonary hypoplasia in isolated congenital diaphragmatic hernia using the sonographic fetal lung volume-body weight ratio

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 190, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1216-1219

  Ruano, Rodrigo ^a,b   Aubry, Marie Cecile ^b   Dumez, Yves ^b   Zugaib, Marcelo ^a   Benachi, Alexandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

Author keywords

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia; Fetal imaging; Obstetrics; Prenatal diagnosis; Pulmonary hypoplasia; Sonography; Women's imaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; LUNG VOLUME; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FETAL WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; ORGAN SIZE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 43649084909     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3078     Document Type: Article

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