Three-dimensional sonography of the posterior fossa in fetuses with open spina bifida at 11-13 weeks' gestation

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 625-629

  Scheier, M ^a   Lachmann, R ^b,c   Petros M ^d   Nicolaides, K H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Foundation and Centre for Materno Fetal Medicine   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

first trimester; posterior fossa; prenatal ultrasonography; spina bifida

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; BRAIN STEM; CISTERNA MAGNA; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OCCIPITAL BONE; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINA BIFIDA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ABDOMEN; BRAIN STEM; CISTERNA MAGNA; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOURTH VENTRICLE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; OCCIPITAL BONE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINA BIFIDA CYSTICA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 82455212850     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.9067     Document Type: Article

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