Sonographic assessment of uterine and ovarian development in normal girls aged 1 to 12 years

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 539-544

  Badouraki, Maria ^a   Christoforidis, Athanasios ^b   Economou, Ippoliti ^b   Dimitriadis, Athanassios S ^b   Katzos, George ^b  

^a Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Children; Girls; Normal; Ovaries; Ultrasound; Uterus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PUBERTY; UTERUS GROWTH;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; UTERUS;

EID: 56749173319     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: 10970096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.20522     Document Type: Article

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