Fetal magnetic resonance imaging and three-dimensional ultrasound in clinical practice: Applications in prenatal diagnosis

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 593-624

  Sepulveda, Waldo ^a   Ximenes, Renato ^b   Wong, Amy E ^a   Sepulveda, Francisco ^c   Martinez Ten, Pilar ^d  

^a Fetal Medicine Center   (Chile)

^b Centrus Center of Ultrasonography and Fetal Medicine   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^d Delta Ultrasound Center in Obstetrics and Gynecology   (Spain)

Author keywords

3D ultrasound; fetal malformations; fetal MRI; fetal ultrasound; prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ACRANIA; ANENCEPHALUS; ARACHNOID CYST; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CEREBELLUM HYPOPLASIA; CHOLEDOCAL CYST; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; CYST; CYSTIC ADENOMATOID MALFORMATION; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; ECHOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENCEPHALOMENINGOCELE; GASTROSCHISIS; HEMANGIOMA; HETEROTOPIA; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HUMAN; HYDRANENCEPHALY; INIENCEPHALY; KIDNEY AGENESIS; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; LUNG SEQUESTRATION; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPHANGIOMA; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NECK TUMOR; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OMPHALOCELE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PORENCEPHALY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELECTASIS; RENAL PELVIS DILATATION; REVIEW; RHOMBENCEPHALOSYNAPSIS; SCHIZENCEPHALY; TERATOMA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL ULTRASOUND; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION; VEIN OF GALEN MALFORMATION;

EID: 84865513784     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: 15321932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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