Normal morphometry of fetal posterior fossa at midtrimester: Brainstem-tentorium angle and brainstem-vermis angle

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 440-443

  Ghi, Tullio ^a   Contro, Elena ^a   De Musso, Francesca ^a   Farina, Antonio ^a   Conturso, Roberto ^b   Bonasoni, Paola ^c   Salsi, Ginevra ^a   Youssef, Aly ^a   Rizzo, Nicola ^a   Pilu, Gianluigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b VALDUCE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM TENTORIUM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MORPHOMETRICS; POSTERIOR FOSSA; POSTERIOR FOSSA ABNORMALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKULL MALFORMATION;

BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84860711765     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.3834     Document Type: Article

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