Epidemiology, natural history, progression, and postnatal outcome of severe fetal ventriculomegaly

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1345-1353

  Hannon, Therese ^a   Tennant, Peter W G ^a   Rankin, Judith ^a   Robson, Stephen C ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FETAL VENTRICULOMEGALY; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS KARYOTYPING; HEART ATRIUM SIZE; HISTORY; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ADULT; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870216825     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3182732b53     Document Type: Article

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