The Limit of Viability – Neonatal Outcome of Infants Born at 22 to 25 Weeks' Gestation

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 329, Issue 22, 1993, Pages 1597-1601

  Allen, Marilee C ^a   Donohue, Pamela K ^a   Dusman, Amy E ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUNG SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC COUNSELING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; STILLBIRTH; SURVIVAL RATE;

FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0027482521     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199311253292201     Document Type: Article

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