Is sonographic assessment of fetal weight influenced by formula selection?

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1019-1024

  Burd, Irina ^a   Srinivas, Sindhu ^a   Paré, Emmanuelle ^a   Dharan, Vanita ^a   Wang, Eileen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal weight; Formula; Small for gestational age

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FETAL MONITORING;

BIPARIETAL DIAMETERS; FETAL WEIGHT; FORMULA; GESTATIONAL AGE; OPTIMAL SENSITIVITY; PERCENTAGE ERROR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SONOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENTS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIPARIETAL DISTANCE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMUR; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS WEIGHT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT ERROR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; URBAN POPULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; FETAL WEIGHT; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PENNSYLVANIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 68249116348     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2009.28.8.1019     Document Type: Article

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