Increased Nucleated Red Blood Cell Counts in Small for Gestational Age Infants With Very Low Birth Weight

American Journal of Diseases of Children

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 164-169

  Philip, Alistair G S ^a   Tito, Alison M ^a  

^a MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LEUKOPENIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0024529313     PISSN: 0002922X     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.1989.02150140050019     Document Type: Article

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