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Research ArticlePediatric Neuroimaging

Evaluation of Posterior Fossa Biometric Measurements on Fetal MRI in the Evaluation of Dandy-Walker Continuum

U.D. Nagaraj, B.M. Kline-Fath, P.S. Horn and C. Venkatesan
American Journal of Neuroradiology July 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A7215
U.D. Nagaraj
aFrom the Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging (U.D.N., B.M.K.-F.), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
bUniversity of Cincinnati College of Medicine (U.D.N., B.M.K.-F., P.S.H., C.V.), Cincinnati, Ohio
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B.M. Kline-Fath
aFrom the Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging (U.D.N., B.M.K.-F.), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
bUniversity of Cincinnati College of Medicine (U.D.N., B.M.K.-F., P.S.H., C.V.), Cincinnati, Ohio
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P.S. Horn
bUniversity of Cincinnati College of Medicine (U.D.N., B.M.K.-F., P.S.H., C.V.), Cincinnati, Ohio
cDepartment of Neurology (P.S.H., C.V.), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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C. Venkatesan
bUniversity of Cincinnati College of Medicine (U.D.N., B.M.K.-F., P.S.H., C.V.), Cincinnati, Ohio
cDepartment of Neurology (P.S.H., C.V.), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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