Placental morphologic features and chorionic surface vasculature at term are highly correlated with 3-dimensional sonographic measurements at 11 to 14 weeks

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1171-1178

  Schwartz, Nadav ^a,b   Mandel, Danielle ^c   Shlakhter, Oleksandr ^d   Coletta, Jaclyn ^b   Pessel, Cara ^b   Timor Tritsch, Ilan E ^b   Salafia, Carolyn M ^c  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Placental Analytics LLC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

3 dimensional sonography; Placenta; Placental volume; Placental weight; Umbilical cord

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; LOCATION; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

3-DIMENSIONAL SONOGRAPHY; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL VOLUME; PLACENTAL WEIGHT; UMBILICAL CORDS;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CHORION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PLACENTA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UMBILICAL CORD; VASCULARIZATION;

CHORION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PLACENTA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 80052498169     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2011.30.9.1171     Document Type: Article

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