Imaging of fetal cytomegalovirus infection

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-126

  Malinger, Gustavo ^a,b   Lev, Dorit ^a,b   Lerman Sagie, Tally ^a,b  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cytomegalovirus; Fetal brain; Fetus; Intrauterine infections; Magnetic resonance imaging; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBELLUM HEMORRHAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; CONGENITAL HYDROCEPHALUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; INTRAVENTRICULAR SYNECHIA; MICROCEPHALY; MICROGYRIA; NEWBORN PERIOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIVENTRICULAR PSEUDOCYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOCYST; REVIEW; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

CALCINOSIS; CEREBELLUM; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROCEPHALY; PREGNANCY;

EID: 79952984713     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000321346     Document Type: Review

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