Limited role of fetal blood sampling in prediction of outcome in intrauterine growth retardation

The Lancet

Volumn 336, Issue 8718, 1990, Pages 768-772

  Nicolini, U ^a   Nicolaidis, P ^a   Fisk, N M ^a   Vaughan, J I ^a   Rodeck, C H ^a   Fusi, L ^b   Gleeson, R ^b  

^a QUEEN CHARLOTTE S AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID BASE BALANCE; ARTICLE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD SAMPLING; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KARYOTYPING; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACID-BASE IMBALANCE; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROGNOSIS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 0025164717     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(90)93239-L     Document Type: Article

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