Fetal brain Doppler to predict cesarean delivery for nonreassuring fetal status in term small-for-gestational-age fetuses

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 618-626

  Cruz Martínez, Rogelio ^a   Figueras, Francesc ^a   Hernandez Andrade, Edgar ^a   Oros, Daniel ^a   Gratacos, Eduard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN TISSUE; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FETAL WELL BEING; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABOR INDUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PARAMETER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; RISK FACTOR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; UMBILICAL ARTERY; VASODILATATION;

ACIDOSIS; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CESAREAN SECTION; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL DISTRESS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LABOR, INDUCED; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; ODDS RATIO; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 79952010685     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31820b0884     Document Type: Article

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