Muscle ultrasound density in human fetuses with spina bifida aperta

Early Human Development

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 519-523

  Verbeek, R J ^a   van der Hoeven, J H ^a   Sollie, K M ^a   Maurits, N M ^a   Bos, A F ^a   den Dunnen, W F A ^a   Brouwer, O F ^a   Sival, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fetus; Histology; Meningomyelocele; Motor behaviour; Muscle ultrasound density; Spina bifida aperta; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LEG MOVEMENT; MUSCLE ULTRASOUND DENSITY; MYOTOME; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL PERIOD; SPINA BIFIDA; SPINA BIFIDA APERTA;

FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; PREGNANCY; SPINA BIFIDA CYSTICA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 67651111850     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2009.04.008     Document Type: Article

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