Fetal Chest Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Recent Advances and Current Clinical Applications

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 805-823

  Bulas, Dorothy ^a   Egloff, Alexia M ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest; Fetal; Magnetic resonance imaging; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

NITROUS OXIDE;

CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CONGENITAL HIGH AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; CONGENITAL LOBAR EMPHYSEMA; CYSTIC ADENOMATOID MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FETAL CHEST; FETUS (ANATOMY); FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS LUNG; FETUS MALFORMATION; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; LUNG MALFORMATION; LUNG SEQUESTRATION; LUNG VOLUME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THORAX; THORAX MALFORMATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 80052301251     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: 15578275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2011.06.005     Document Type: Review

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