Assessment of fetal midbrain and hindbrain in mid-sagittal cranial plane by three-dimensional multiplanar sonography. Part 1: Comparison of new and established nomograms

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 575-580

  Leibovitz, Z ^a,b,c   Shkolnik, C ^d   Haratz, K Krajden ^a,b   Malinger, G ^b   Shapiro, I ^c   Lerman Sagie, T ^a,b  

^a WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

biometry; fetal midbrain; pons; vermis

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYOLOGY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MESENCEPHALON; NOMOGRAM; ORGAN SIZE; PONS; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHOMBENCEPHALON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MESENCEPHALON; NOMOGRAMS; ORGAN SIZE; PONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHOMBENCEPHALON; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84912108513     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.13308     Document Type: Article

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