Assessment of the fetal thymus by two- and three-dimensional ultrasound during normal human gestation and in fetuses with congenital heart defects

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 404-409

  Li, L ^a,b   Bahtiyar, M O ^b   Buhimschi, C S ^b   Zou, L ^a   Zhou, Q C ^a   Copel, J A ^b  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

congenital heart defects; fetus; thymus; ultrasound; volume

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THYMUS; TWINS;

DISEASES IN TWINS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; THYMUS GLAND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 79953147662     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.8853     Document Type: Article

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