Obstetric management of intrauterine growth restriction

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 857-870

  Maršál, Karel ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

clinical management; delivery mode; Doppler velocimetry; foetal monitoring; intrauterine growth restriction; pregnancy outcome; small for gestational age; timing of delivery; ultrasound foetometry

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; DELIVERY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DUCTUS VENOSUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS HYPOXIA; FOLLOW UP; GESTATION PERIOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MONITORING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBSTETRIC CARE; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL VEIN; UTERINE ARTERY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MOVEMENT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL CARE; PROCEDURES; VASCULARIZATION;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL MOVEMENT; FETUS; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; UMBILICAL VEINS; UTERINE ARTERY;

EID: 71849115163     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2009.08.011     Document Type: Review

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