Clinical significance of increasing histologic severity of acute inflammation in the fetal membranes and umbilical cord

Pediatric Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 731-744

  Van Hoeven, K H ^a   Anyaegbunam, A ^a   Whitty, Janice E ^a   Distant, Jacqueline ^a   Crawford, Carla ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

embryo; fetal diseases; fetal membranes; placenta diseases; premature rupture; umbilical cord

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS MEMBRANE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERINATAL DEATH; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UMBILICAL CORD;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FETAL DEATH; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFLAMMATION; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 0029744505     PISSN: 10771042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/107710496175354     Document Type: Article

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