An integrated model with classification criteria to predict small-for-gestational-age fetuses at risk of adverse perinatal outcome

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 279-285

  Figueras, F ^a,b   Savchev, S ^a   Triunfo, S ^a   Crovetto, F ^a   Gratacos, E ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Doppler; Fetal growth restriction; Management; Perinatal complications; Small for gestational age

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ALGORITHM; CESAREAN SECTION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LABOR INDUCTION; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROCEDURES; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SMOKING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UTERINE ARTERY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CESAREAN SECTION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LABOR, INDUCED; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; SMOKING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UTERINE ARTERY;

EID: 84924033980     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.14714     Document Type: Article

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