Sonographic fetal weight estimation: Which model should be used?

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 617-629

  Melamed, Nir ^a   Yogev, Yariv ^b   Meizner, Israel ^b   Mashiach, Reuven ^b   Bardin, Ron ^b   Ben Haroush, Avi ^b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Accuracy; Comparison; Estimation; Fetal; Models; Weight

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; MODELS; RANDOM ERRORS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

ACCURACY; COMPARISON; FETAL; FETAL WEIGHT; FETAL WEIGHT ESTIMATION; MODEL GROUPS; WEIGHT; WEIGHT ESTIMATION;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS WEIGHT; HUMAN; MALE; RANDOM ERROR; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 65949114646     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2009.28.5.617     Document Type: Article

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