Echogenic bowel on second-trimester ultrasonography: Evaluating the risk of adverse pregnancy outcome

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1341-1348

  Goetzinger, Katherine R ^a   Cahill, Alison G ^a   MacOnes, George A ^a   Odibo, Anthony O ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ECHOGENIC BOWEL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEONATAL WEIGHT LOSS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIMIGRAVIDA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ECHOGENIC BOWEL; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958082233     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e31821aa739     Document Type: Article

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