Fetal Bowel Dilatation: A Sonographic Sign of Uncertain Prognosis

Fetal bowel dilatation is an indirect sonographic sign of mechanical or functional bowel obstruction. The etiology of fetal bowel dilatation is a difficult prenatal diagnosis since ultrasound has limited accuracy for bowel evaluation. The authors describe a case of fetal bowel dilatation diagnosed i...

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Autores principales: Silva, Patrícia, Reis, Filipa, Alves, Paulo, Farinha, Luís, Gomes, Manuel Sousa, Câmara, Pilar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4706883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26819789
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/608787
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author Silva, Patrícia
Reis, Filipa
Alves, Paulo
Farinha, Luís
Gomes, Manuel Sousa
Câmara, Pilar
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description Fetal bowel dilatation is an indirect sonographic sign of mechanical or functional bowel obstruction. The etiology of fetal bowel dilatation is a difficult prenatal diagnosis since ultrasound has limited accuracy for bowel evaluation. The authors describe a case of fetal bowel dilatation diagnosed in the third trimester.
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spelling pubmed-47068832016-01-27 Fetal Bowel Dilatation: A Sonographic Sign of Uncertain Prognosis Silva, Patrícia Reis, Filipa Alves, Paulo Farinha, Luís Gomes, Manuel Sousa Câmara, Pilar Case Rep Obstet Gynecol Case Report Fetal bowel dilatation is an indirect sonographic sign of mechanical or functional bowel obstruction. The etiology of fetal bowel dilatation is a difficult prenatal diagnosis since ultrasound has limited accuracy for bowel evaluation. The authors describe a case of fetal bowel dilatation diagnosed in the third trimester. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-12-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4706883/ /pubmed/26819789 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/608787 Text en Copyright © 2015 Patrícia Silva et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Silva, Patrícia
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Farinha, Luís
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Fetal Bowel Dilatation: A Sonographic Sign of Uncertain Prognosis
title Fetal Bowel Dilatation: A Sonographic Sign of Uncertain Prognosis
title_full Fetal Bowel Dilatation: A Sonographic Sign of Uncertain Prognosis
title_fullStr Fetal Bowel Dilatation: A Sonographic Sign of Uncertain Prognosis
title_full_unstemmed Fetal Bowel Dilatation: A Sonographic Sign of Uncertain Prognosis
title_short Fetal Bowel Dilatation: A Sonographic Sign of Uncertain Prognosis
title_sort fetal bowel dilatation: a sonographic sign of uncertain prognosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4706883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26819789
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/608787
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