The Differential Diagnosis of Fetal Intracranial Cystic Lesions

Ultrasound Clinics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 553-558

  Malinger, Gustavo ^a,b   Sereño, Edgardo Corral ^c   Lerman Sagie, Tally ^a,b  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Hospital Regional Rancagua   (Chile)

Author keywords

Intracranial cysts; Prenatal diagnosis; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARACHNOID CYST; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOCYST; REVIEW;

EID: 64749114841     PISSN: 1556858X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cult.2008.09.002     Document Type: Review

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