Evaluation of Fetal Cerebrovascular Circulation and Brain Development: The Role of Ultrasound and Doppler

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 259-269

  Degani, Shimon ^a  

^a BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

cerebrovascular circulation; Doppler; fetus; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANEMIA; BLOOD VESSEL COMPLIANCE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN VEIN; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CEREBROVASCULAR MALFORMATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROCEPHALY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TWIN PREGNANCY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

BRAIN; CIRCLE OF WILLIS; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 67650621389     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2009.04.004     Document Type: Review

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