Demonstration of cranial sutures and fontanelles at 15 to 16 weeks of gestation: A comparison between two-dimensional and three-dimensional ultrasonography

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 812-815

  Ginath, S ^b   Debby, A ^b   Malinger, G ^a  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cranial sutures; Fontanelles; Prenatal diagnosis; Three dimensional ultrasonography; Two dimensional ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR FONTANEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL SUTURE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS (ANATOMY); FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LAMBDOIDAL SUTURE; MALE; METOPIC SUTURE; POSTERIOR FONTANEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; SAGITTAL SUTURE; SUTURING METHOD; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CRANIAL SUTURES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 7944237257     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.988     Document Type: Article

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