Cardiac screening by STIC: Can sonologists performing the 20-week anomaly scan pick up outflow tract abnormalities by scrolling the A-plane of STIC volumes?

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 865-870

  Paladini, D ^a,b   Sglavo, G ^a   Greco, E ^a   Nappi, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Screening; Spatiotemporal image correlation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXPERIENCE; FALLOT TETRALOGY; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL EXPERT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SCREENING; SPATIOTEMPORAL IMAGE CORRELATION;

ALGORITHMS; CARDIAC VOLUME; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 57149085903     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.6261     Document Type: Article

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