Meconium-Induced Vasocontraction: A Potential Cause of Cerebral and Other Fetal Hypoperfusion and of Poor Pregnancy Outcome

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 137-142

  Altshuler, Geoffrey ^a   Hyde, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MECONIUM; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; UMBILICUS; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL PALSY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISCHEMIA; MECONIUM; MECONIUM ASPIRATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK FACTORS; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0024503105     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: 17088283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/088307388900400214     Document Type: Article

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