Examination of the fetal heart by four-dimensional ultrasound with spatiotemporal image correlation during routine second-trimester examination: The 'three-steps technique'

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 126-131

  Rizzo, Giuseppe ^a   Capponi, Alessandra ^b   Muscatello, Andrea ^a   Cavicchioni, Ottavia ^a   Vendola, Marianne ^a   Arduini, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b Ospedale GB Grassi   (Italy)

Author keywords

4D ultrasound; Congenital heart disease; Fetal echocardiography; STIC

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 52049098917     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000142142     Document Type: Article

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