Vermian biometric parameters in the normal and abnormal fetal posterior fossa: Three-dimensional sonographic study

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1403-1410

  Bertucci, Emma ^a   Gindes, Liat ^b   Mazza, Vincenzo ^a   Re, Claudia ^a   Lerner Geva, Liat ^b   Achiron, Reuven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

3 dimensional sonography; Posterior fossa abnormalities; Vermis

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

3-DIMENSIONAL SONOGRAPHY; BIOMETRIC PARAMETERS; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; DIAMETER MEASUREMENT; NON-PARAMETRIC TEST; POSTERIOR FOSSA ABNORMALITIES; VERMIS; VOLUME CONTRAST IMAGING;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CEREBELLUM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBELLUM; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 80053525124     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2011.30.10.1403     Document Type: Article

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