Intrauterine growth restriction: Diagnosis and management. A review

Minerva Ginecologica

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 411-420

  Rizzo, G ^a   Arduini, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fetal growth retardation; Hemodynamics; Placental insufficiency; Ultrasonography, Doppler

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS WEIGHT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; PATIENT MONITORING; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLACENTA INSUFFICIENCY; REVIEW;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL HYPOXIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, INDUCED; PLACENTAL INSUFFICIENCY; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; UMBILICAL VEINS;

EID: 71949130545     PISSN: 00264784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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