TY - BOOK AU - Amira Mohamed Ibrahim Osman AU - Abdallah Mahmoud Khalil , AU - Abdallah Yehia Elkateb , AU - Alaa Eldin Naguib Elebrashy , TI - Sonographic evaluation of the fetal thymus and its significance as a sonographic marker in intrauterine infection / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Amira Mohamed Ibrahim Osman , KW - Fetal thymus KW - Intrauterine infection KW - Ultrasound N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics; Issued also as CD N2 - The early and accurate detection of intrauterine infection is an important challenge in clinical obstetrics. Currently there are no reliable clinical markers to adequately indicate subclinical intrauterine infection. The thymus gland perimeter and transverse diameter were evaluated sonographically concluding that there was a progressive increase in thymus gland size with progressing gestational age ER -