Specific formulas improve the estimation of fetal weight by ultrasound scan

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 737-742

  Souka, Athena P ^a,b   Papastefanou, Ioannis ^a   Michalitsi, Vasiliki ^a   Pilalis, Athanasios ^a,b   Kassanos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Leto Maternity Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Biometry; Birth weight; Equation; Growth; Third trimester

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HADLOCK FORMULA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LOW RISK POPULATION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM ERROR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; ANTHROPOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY;

ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOMETRY; FEMALE; FETAL WEIGHT; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84897506068     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2013.837877     Document Type: Article

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