Are fetuses with isolated echogenic bowel at higher risk for an adverse pregnancy outcome? Experiences from a tertiary referral center

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 32, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 1295-1299

  Mailath Pokorny, Mariella ^a   Klein, Katharina ^a   Klebermass Schrehof, Katrin ^b   Hachemian, Nilouparak ^a   Bettelheim, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIV KLIN FÜR FRAUENHEILKUNDE   (Austria)

^b UNIV KLIN KINDER JUGENDHEILKUNDE   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHOROID PLEXUS; CONGENITAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ECHOGENIC BOWEL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KARYOTYPE; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARVOVIRUS INFECTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; RUBELLA; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VAGINA BLEEDING;

ADULT; AUSTRIA; ECHOGENIC BOWEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84870702231     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.3999     Document Type: Article

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