Two decades of advancement in the assessment of fetal health.
Over the past twenty years there has been a substantial refining and extension of the tests available for the assessment of fetal health. This has particularly been related to the developed of reasonably-priced real-time ultrasound and an improved understanding of the relationship between aspects of fetal behaviour and state and fetal health. The impact of these developments is briefly reviewed.
Parer
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Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences University of California, San Francisco 94143.
D001519:Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus / Q000502:physiology*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal