Opinion: The added value of 3D/4D ultrasound imaging in fetal cardiology: Has the promise been fulfilled?

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 260-262

  Shen, O ^a   Yagel, S ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; FOUR DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 77949573063     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.7569     Document Type: Note

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