This is the premiere clinical textbook on fetal and perinatal ultrasound diagnosis. Profusely illustrated, including Doppler sonographs in color, it contains nineteen original new chapters by prominent clinician-teachers from America's foremost medical schools and teaching hospitals. The entire text focuses on definitive, clinically relevant, how-to information with comprehensive chapters on the physics of real-time ultrasound imaging and Doppler, first trimester ultrasonography, sonoembryology, fetal biometry, gestational age estimation, intrauterine growth restriction, macrosomia, placenta, umbilical cord, amniotic fluid, fetal face and central nervous system, abnormalities of fetal neck and thorax, abnormalities of fetal abdomen and spine, fetal echocardiography, an in utero diagnosis of skeletal disorders, the fetal spine, hydrops fetalis, multiple gestation, antenatal fetal assessment technologies, current perspectives and new developments in ultrasound guided invasive procedures for prenatal diagnosis and therapy, ultrasonographic screening for fetal chromosomal abnormalities in the first and second trimester of pregnancy, ultrasonography and general screening, and three-dimensional ultrasonography of the embryo and fetus.




