Ultrasound diagnosis of fetal renal abnormalities

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 403-415

  Dias, Tiran ^a   Sairam, Shanthi ^b   Kumarasiri, Shanya ^a  

^a District General Hospital   (Sri Lanka)

^b Fetal Medicine and Fetal Cardiology Mediscan   (India)

Author keywords

prenatal diagnosis; renal tract anomalies; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; DILATATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYOLOGY; FETUS BLADDER; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; KIDNEY AGENESIS; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY DUPLICATION; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; URINARY TRACT; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RENAL TRACT ANOMALIES; ULTRASOUND;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; URETER; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER; UROGENITAL ABNORMALITIES;

EID: 84897040262     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: 15321932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2014.01.009     Document Type: Article

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