Shining light in dark corners: Diagnosis and management of late-onset fetal growth restriction

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-10

  Macdonald, Teresa M ^a,c   McCarthy, Elizabeth A ^a,b,c   Walker, Susan P ^b,c  

^a NORTHERN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MERCY HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

fetal Doppler; growth restriction; growth velocity; stillbirth; uteroplacental insufficiency

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CIRCUMFERENCE; ANTEPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS GROWTH; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART PERFORMANCE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MATERNAL OBESITY; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; UMBILICAL ARTERY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; PREGNANCY; STILLBIRTH; WATCHFUL WAITING;

FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; STILLBIRTH; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; WATCHFUL WAITING;

EID: 84923227444     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajo.12264     Document Type: Article

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