Prenatal US evaluation of the spinal cord using high-frequency linear transducers

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 374-383

  Blondiaux, Eléonore ^a   Katorza, Eldad ^a   Rosenblatt, Jonathan ^a   Nahama Allouche, Catherine ^a   Lenoir, Marion ^a   Le Pointe, Hubert Ducou ^a   Garel, Catherine ^a  

^a ARMAND TROUSSEAU HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Fetus; High frequency transducer; Prenatal diagnosis; Spinal cord; US

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AMNION FLUID; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CAUDA EQUINA; CAUDAL REGRESSION SYNDROME; CHILDBIRTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONUS MEDULLARIS; DIASTEMATOMYELIA; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FILUM TERMINALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH FREQUENCY LINEAR TRANSDUCER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MENINGOCELE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSSIFICATION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SPINAL CORD; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VENTRICULUS TERMINALIS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; SPINAL CORD; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 79953829630     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-010-1922-1     Document Type: Article

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