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01-08-2007 | Letter to the Editor

Sonoembryology by three-dimensional ultrasonography: pictorial essay

Authors: Sebastião Marques Zanforlin Filho, Edward Araujo Júnior, Hélio Antonio Guimarães Filho, Claudio Rodrigues Pires, Luciano Marcondes Machado Nardozza, Antonio Fernandes Moron

Published in: Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics | Issue 2/2007

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Three-dimensional ultrasonography in obstetrics has evolved in the last years, and nowadays it is a methodology that greatly helps prenatal diagnosis. Through its rendering mode it allows the careful evaluation of fetal face and limbs, and in multiplanar mode it allows the assessment of the anatomy through the many possible planes. In the first trimester of gestation, three-dimensional ultrasonography permits the detailed evaluation of embryonic development. Its main advantages over two-dimensional ultrasonography are shorter examination time and the possibility of storage of the volumes for later processing and analysis.

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We present a pictorial essay with normal embryo development in the first trimester of pregnancy by three-dimensional ultrasonography, from the fifth to ninth week.

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Title: Sonoembryology by three-dimensional ultrasonography: pictorial essay
Authors: Sebastião Marques Zanforlin Filho
Edward Araujo Júnior
Hélio Antonio Guimarães Filho
Claudio Rodrigues Pires
Luciano Marcondes Machado Nardozza
Antonio Fernandes Moron
Publication date: 01-08-2007
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics / Issue 2/2007
Print ISSN: 0932-0067
Electronic ISSN: 1432-0711
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00404-007-0330-8

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