Prevalence and spectrum of in utero structural brain abnormalities in fetuses with complex congenital heart disease

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1593-1599

  Brossard Racine, M ^a   Du Plessis, A J ^a   Vezina, G ^a   Robertson, R ^b   Bulas, D ^a   Evangelou, I E ^a   Donofrio, M ^a   Freeman, D ^a   Limperopoulos, Catherine ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MALFORMATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; ADULT; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FETAL DISEASES; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETUS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84907372133     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A3903     Document Type: Article

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