Second trimester fetal neurosonography: Reconstructing cerebral midline anatomy and anomalies using a novel three-dimensional ultrasound technique

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 75-83

  Tonni, Gabriele ^a   Grisolia, Gianpaolo ^b   Sepulveda, Waldo ^c  

^a Guastalla Civil Hospital   (Italy)

^b CARLO POMA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c Fetal Medicine Center   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AUTOPSY; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; FEMALE; FETAL NEUROSONOGRAPHY; FETUS (ANATOMY); FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MALFORMATION; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW RISK POPULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARITY; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; UTERUS MYOMA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGENESIS OF CORPUS CALLOSUM; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84891558104     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.4258     Document Type: Article

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