A novel method for evaluating uterine cervical consistency using vaginal ultrasound gray-level histogram

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 491-494

  Kuwata, Tomoyuki ^a,b   Matsubara, Shigeki ^a   Taniguchi, Nobuyuki ^a   Ohkuchi, Akihide ^a   Ohkusa, Takashi ^b   Suzuki, Mitsuaki ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ohkusa Ladies' Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bishop score; cervical consistency; cervical ripening; histogram; mean gray level

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY GRAY LEVEL HISTOGRAM; UTERINE CERVIX;

ADULT; CERVICAL RIPENING; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VAGINA;

EID: 77956460764     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 16193997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPM.2010.079     Document Type: Article

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