Quantitative ultrasound measurement of intima-media thickness of abdominal aorta and common carotid arteries in normal term newborns

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 364-369

  Hondappanavar, Anil ^a   Sodhi, Kushaljit Singh ^a   Dutta, Sourabh ^a   Saxena, Akshay Kumar ^a   Khandelwal, Niranjan ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Aorta; Atherosclerosis; Intima media thickness; Newborns; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; B SCAN; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECHOGRAPH; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; RISK FACTOR;

AORTA, ABDOMINAL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84879501870     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: 14321971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-012-0464-8     Document Type: Article

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