The impact of ultrasonographic placental architecture on antenatal course, labor and delivery in a low-risk primigravid population

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 493-497

  Cooley, Sharon M ^a   Donnelly, Jennifer C ^a   Walsh, Thomas ^a   McMahon, Corrina ^b   Gillan, John ^a   Geary, Michael P ^a  

^a ROTUNDA HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b OUR LADY S CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

low risk primip; obstetric outcome; placental architecture; Placental ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR PLACENTATION; ARTICLE; DELIVERY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ACIDOSIS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS WASTAGE; FUNDAL PLACENTATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMMINENT ABORTION; INCIDENCE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LABOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLACENTA; PLACENTA CALCIFICATION; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLACENTA INFARCTION; PLACENTA LOCALIZATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIMIGRAVIDA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GRAVIDITY; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; PLACENTA; POPULATION; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79751501230     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2010.497877     Document Type: Article

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