Three and four dimensional ultrasound: A novel method for evaluating fetal cardiac anomalies

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 645-653

  Gindes, L ^a,b   Hegesh, J ^a,b   Weisz, B ^a,b   Gilboa, Y ^a,b   Achiron, R ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

3 Dimensional ultrasound; Cardiac anomalies; Fetus; STIC

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DEXTROCARDIA; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FETAL CARDIAC ANOMALY; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART FORAMEN OVALE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEVOCARDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SITUS INVERSUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 67650508110     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.2257     Document Type: Article

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