Prenatal ultrasound diagnosis of neural tube defects. Pictorial essay

Medical Ultrasonography

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 147-153

  Rǎdulescu, Micaela ^a   Ulmeanu, Emil Coriolan ^b   Nedelea, Mihaela ^a   Oncescu, Andrei ^c  

^a Clinical Emergency Hospital of Bucharest   (Romania)

^b CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^c Department of Obstetrics Ginecology   (Romania)

Author keywords

Anencephaly; Encephalocele; Meningomyelocele; Neural tube defects; Spinal dysraphism

Indexed keywords

AMNION BAND SYNDROME; ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN HERNIA; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; DIASTEMATOMYELIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENCEPHALOMENINGOCELE; ENCEPHALOMENINGOCYSTOCELE; EXENCEPHALY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HYDRAMNIOS; HYPERTELORISM; INCIDENCE; INIENCEPHALY; MECKEL SYNDROME; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; MENINGOCELE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; OMPHALOCELE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SACROCOCCYX TERATOMA; SACRUM AGENESIS; SCOLIOSIS; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84867933093     PISSN: 18444172     EISSN: 20668643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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