Sonographic fetal weight estimation - is there more to it than just fetal measurements?

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 50-55

  Barel, Oshri ^a,b   Maymon, Ron ^a,b   Vaknin, Zvi ^a,b   Tovbin, Josef ^a,b   Smorgick, Noam ^a,b  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MALE; MASS; MATERNAL AGE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; MULTIPARA; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RANDOM ERROR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; YOUNG ADULT;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84891560534     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.4250     Document Type: Article

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