MR imaging of the fetal musculoskeletal system

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 205-213

  Nemec, Stefan Franz ^a,b   Nemec, Ursula ^a   Brugger, Peter C ^a   Bettelheim, Dieter ^c   Rotmensch, Siegfried ^b   Graham, John M ^b   Rimoin, David L ^b   Prayer, Daniela ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIV KLIN FÜR FRAUENHEILKUNDE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAVICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMUR; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMERUS; LONG BONE; MANDIBLE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSSIFICATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIB; SKULL; SPINE; THORAX;

FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUSCULOSKELETAL DEVELOPMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84858696471     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.2914     Document Type: Review

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