Adverse Effects on Offspring of Maternal Alcohol Abuse during Pregnancy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 297, Issue 10, 1977, Pages 528-530

  Ouellette, Eileen M ^a,b   Rosett, Henry L ^a,b   Rosman, N Paul ^a,b   Weiner, Lyn ^a,b  

^a Neurology ^*  (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS DISEASE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MICROCEPHALY; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; RISK; SMOKING; ALCOHOLISM; CONGENITAL DISORDER; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; MALFORMATION SYNDROME; PROGENY; TERATOGENICITY;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICROCEPHALY; PREGNANCY; RISK; SMOKING;

ALCOHOL;

EID: 0017622843     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM197709082971003     Document Type: Article

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