Some Placental Considerations Related to Neurodevelopmental and Other Disorders

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 78-94

  Altshuler, Geoffrey ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; FETUS; FETUS HYPOXIA; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; ISCHEMIA; LUNG VASOCONSTRICTION; MECONIUM; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MICROSCOPY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PATHOLOGY; PERFUSION; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PERSISTENT FETUS CIRCULATION; PLACENTA; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; VASOCONSTRICTION;

BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CHORIONIC VILLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MENTAL RETARDATION; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 0027522492     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: 17088283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/088307389300800111     Document Type: Article

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