Sonographic measurements of the thymus in male and female fetuses

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-48

  De Leon Luis, Juan ^a   Gámez, Francisco ^a   Pintado, Pilar ^a   Antolin, Eugenia ^a   Pérez, Ricardo ^a   Ortiz Quintana, Luis ^a   Santolaya Forgas, Joaquin ^b  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal stress; Fetal therapy; Fetal thymus; In utero cell based therapy; Prenatal diagnosis; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; STEM CELLS;

BIOMETRIC PARAMETERS; CELL BASED THERAPIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FETAL THERAPIES; INTRA-OBSERVER VARIABILITY; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

THYMUS;

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; THYMUS;

EID: 58149526703     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2009.28.1.43     Document Type: Article

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