PERINATAL JOURNAL a L J O a T U N R I N R a E L P Volume 20 | Issue 2 | August 2012
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ISSN 1305–3124 S 20 YEAR PERINATAL JOURNAL A L J O www.perinataljournal.com A T U N R I N R A E L P Volume 20 | Issue 2 | August 2012 P L E R A I N N R A U T A L J O The Official Publication of Perinatal Medicine Foundation Turkish Perinatology Society Turkish Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology T A L J O A U N R I N R A E L P P L E R A I N N R A U T A L J O www.perinataljournal.com Volume 20 | Issue 2 | August 2012 Editors Advisory Board Cihat fien, Arif Akflit, Eskisehir, Turkey Davor Jurkovic, London, UK Istanbul, Turkey Aris Antsaklis, Athens, Greece Ayfle Kafkasl›, ‹stanbul, Turkey Olufl Api, Istanbul, Turkey Oliver Kagan, Tübingen, Germany Murat Yayla, Saadet Arsan, Ankara, Turkey Ömer Kandemir, Ankara, Turkey Istanbul, Turkey Abdel-Latif Ashmaig, Khartoum, Sudan ‹schiro Kawabata, Osaka, Japan Abdallah Adra, Beirut, Lebanon Selahattin Kumru, Düzce, Turkey Ahmet Baschat, Baltimore, MD, USA As›m Kurjak, Zagrep, Croatia Yeflim Baytur, Manisa, Turkey Nilgün Kültürsay, Izmir, Turkey Ana Bianchi, Montevideo, Uruguay Malcome Levene, Leeds, UK Lous Cabero-Roura, Barcelona, Spain Narendra Malhotra, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India Manuel Carrapato, Porto, Portugal Giampaolo Mandruzzato, Trieste, Italy Jose M. Carrera, Barcelona, Spain Alexandra Matias, Porto, Portugal Julene Carvalho, London, UK Ratko Matijevic, Zagrep, Croatia RabihChaoui, Berlin, Germany Israel Meizner, Tel Aviv, Israel Frank Chervenak, New York, NY, USA Mohammed Momtaz, Cairo, Egypt Ebru Çelik, Malatya, Turkey Giovanni Monni, Cagliari, Italy Vincenzo D’Addario, Bari, Italy Ercüment Müngen, Istanbul, Turkey Nur Daniflmend, Istanbul, Turkey Kypros Nicolaides, London, UK Jan Deprest, Leuven, Belgium Lütfü Öndero¤lu, Ankara, Turkey Ebru Dikensoy, Gaziantep, Turkey Soner Öner, Izmir, Turkey Gönül Dinç, Manisa, Turkey Okan Özkaya, Isparta, Turkey Gian Carlo DiRenzo, Perugia, Italy Alexander Papitashvilli, Tbilisi, Georgia Tony Duan, Shanghai, China ‹brahim Polat, Istanbul, Turkey Joachim Dudenhausen, Berlin, Germany Ritsuko Pooh, Osaka, Japan Alaa Ebrashy, Cairo, Egypt Ruben Quintero, Tampa, FL, USA Ali Ergün, Ankara, Turkey Nebojsa Radunovic, Belgrade, Serbia Ulrich Gembruch, Bonn, Germany Guiseppe Rizzo, Roma, Italy Anne Greenough, London, UK Roberto Romero, Detroit, MI, USA Gökhan Göynümer, Istanbul, Turkey Haluk Sayman, Istanbul, Turkey Arif Güngören, Antakya, Turkey Elif Gül Yapar Eyi, Ankara, Turkey Names are in alphabetical order. 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