MR imaging of the fetal cerebellar vermis: Biometric predictors of adverse neurologic outcome

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1284-1292

  Xi, Yin ^a   Brown, Emily ^a   Bailey, April ^a   Twickler, Diane M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

biometry; cerebellum; fetal; MRI; neurology; vermis

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FETAL BRAIN; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFERENCE VALUE; ABNORMALITIES; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BIOMETRY; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBELLAR VERMIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84963550572     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.25270     Document Type: Article

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