Reference charts for fetal corpus callosum length: A prospective cross-sectional study of 2950 fetuses

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1065-1078

  Cignini, Pietro ^a   Padula, Francesco ^a   Giorlandino, Maurizio ^a   Brutti, Pierpaolo ^b   Alfò, Marco ^b   Giannarelli, Diana ^c   Mastrandrea, Maria Luisa ^a   D'Emidio, Laura ^f   Vacca, Lorenzo ^d   Aloisi, Alessia ^e   Giorlandino, Claudio ^a  

^a Artemisia Medical Center   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c REGINA ELENA NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Fetal biometry; Fetal sonography; Obstetric ultrasound; Reference charts

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

BIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FETAL BIOMETRY; FETAL SONOGRAPHIES; LINEAR REGRESSION EQUATION; NONPARAMETRIC METHODS; NONPARAMETRIC QUANTILE REGRESSION MODELS; REFERENCE CHARTS;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

BIOMETRY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BIOMETRY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH CHARTS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84902263277     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: 15509613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/ultra.33.6.1065     Document Type: Article

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