Role of 3-dimensional power doppler sonography in differentiating pregnant women with threatened preterm labor from those with an asymptomatic short cervix

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 673-679

  De Diego, Raül ^a   Sabrià, Joan ^a   Vela, Antonio ^a   Rodríguez, David ^a   Gómez, Maria Dolores ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

3 dimensional Doppler sonography; Obstetric ultrasound; Vascular indices; Virtual organ computer aided analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGIC CONDITIONS; POWER DOPPLER SONOGRAPHIES; PRETERM DELIVERIES; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TRANSVAGINAL SONOGRAPHY; VASCULAR INDICES; VIRTUAL ORGAN COMPUTER-AIDED ANALYSIS;

OBSTETRICS;

3-DIMENSIONAL DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CERVICAL LENGTH MEASUREMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; OBSTETRIC ULTRASOUND; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UTERINE CERVIX; VASCULAR INDICES; VIRTUAL ORGAN COMPUTER-AIDED ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

3-DIMENSIONAL DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY; OBSTETRIC ULTRASOUND; VASCULAR INDICES; VIRTUAL ORGAN COMPUTER-AIDED ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CERVICAL LENGTH MEASUREMENT; CERVIX UTERI; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897081117     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: 15509613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/ultra.33.4.673     Document Type: Article

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