Assessment of the accuracy of multiple sonographic fetal weight estimation formulas: A 10-year experience from a single center

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 815-823

  Barel, Oshri ^a   Vaknin, Zvi ^a   Tovbin, Josef ^a   Herman, Arie ^a   Maymon, Ron ^a  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Estimation; Fetal weight; Models; Sonography

Indexed keywords

FETAL MONITORING; MODELS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ACCURATE FORMULAS; COHORT STUDIES; FETAL WEIGHT; FETAL WEIGHT ESTIMATION; MEAN PERCENT ERROR; MEDICAL CENTER; WEIGHT ESTIMATION;

ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS WEIGHT; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; FETAL WEIGHT; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84878100633     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: 15509613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/ultra.32.5.815     Document Type: Article

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