How best to improve antenatal detection of congenital heart defects

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 846-848

  Roberts, D ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL WOMEN'S NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART VOLUME; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN SCREENING; NOTE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL IMAGE CORRELATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 57149103956     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.6279     Document Type: Note

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