Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 142-148 , February 2009

Quantitative Analysis of Placental Vasculature by Three-Dimensional Power Doppler Ultrasonography in Normal Pregnancies From 12 to 40 Weeks of Gestation

  • C.F.S. de Paula

      Affiliations

    • Obstetrics Department, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
    • ,
  • R. Ruano

      Affiliations

    • Obstetrics Department, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Obstetrics Department, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua Valentim Magalhães, 100, ap. 52, São Paulo 03184-090, SP, Brazil. Tel.: +55 11 6601 6280; fax: +55 11 3069 6445.
    • ,
  • J.A.D.B. Campos

      Affiliations

    • Social Department, Faculdade de Odontologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Araraquara, Brazil
    • ,
  • M. Zugaib

      Affiliations

    • Obstetrics Department, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

,Accepted 15 November 2008.

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PII: S0143-4004(08)00386-X

doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2008.11.010

Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 142-148 , February 2009

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