Chorioamnionitis in the preterm gestation

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 1982, Pages 539-545

  Garite, Thomas J ^a   Freeman, Roger K ^a  

^a LONG BEACH MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIOAMNIONITIS; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FEVER; NEWBORN; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PERINATOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURITY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MALE; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME;

EID: 0020079564     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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