Current guidelines for fetal echocardiography: Time to raise the bar

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 284-286

  Sklansky, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NOTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; STANDARD;

FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 79251500974     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2011.30.2.284     Document Type: Letter

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