Normal perinatal and paediatric postmortem magnetic resonance imaging appearances

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 527-535

  Arthurs, Owen J ^a,b   Barber, Joy L ^a   Taylor, Andrew M ^a,c   Sebire, Neil J ^a,b  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Children; Fetus; Magnetic resonance imaging; Pathology

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; AUTOPSY; BODY POSITION; CHILD; FETUS DEATH; HEAD FLATTENING; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PERINATAL DEATH; POSTMORTEM CHANGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL MALFORMATION; THORAX; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; PEDIATRICS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARDS; UNITED STATES;

AUTOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PEDIATRICS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84926196582     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-014-3166-y     Document Type: Article

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