Do babies with isolated single umbilical artery need routine postnatal renal ultrasonography?

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Deshpande, S A ^a   Jog, S ^a   Watson, H ^a   Gornall, A ^a  

^a ROYAL SHREWSBURY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE UMBILICAL ARTERY;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; KIDNEY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 67649671729     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2007.136085     Document Type: Article

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