Prenatal ultrasound predictors of postnatal major cerebral abnormalities in fetuses with apparently isolated mild ventriculomegaly

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 783-788

  Baffero, Giulia Maria ^a,b   Crovetto, Francesca ^a,b   Fabietti, Isabella ^a   Boito, Simona ^a   Fogliani, Roberto ^a   Fumagalli, Monica ^a   Triulzi, Fabio ^a   Mosca, Fabio ^a,b   Fedele, Luigi ^a,b   Persico, Nicola ^a  

^a MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; KARYOTYPE; MAJOR CEREBRAL ABNORMALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; BRAIN; COMPLICATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; HYDROCEPHALUS; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; PREGNANCY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84938740835     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.4607     Document Type: Article

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