Relationship of first-trimester uterine artery Doppler to late stillbirth

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 557-561

  Iacovella, C ^a,b   Franchi, M ^a,b   Egbor, M ^a   Bhide, A ^a   Thilaganathan, B ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DEMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; PARITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STILLBIRTH; SURVIVAL RATE; UTERINE ARTERY;

FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; RISK FACTORS; STILLBIRTH; UTERINE ARTERY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 84861481782     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.3855     Document Type: Article

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