Leukemia and other Cancers, Anomalies and Infections as Causes of Death in Down's Syndrome in the United States during 1976

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology

Volumn 24, Issue , 1982, Pages 817-829

  Stein, Zena ^b   Hansen, Holger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOWN SYNDROME; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FATALITY; FETUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SUICIDE;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0020466620     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1982.tb13702.x     Document Type: Article

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