Role of the placenta in perinatal pathology (revisited)

Pediatric Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 207-234

  Altshuler, Geoffrey ^a,b,c  

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

^b Fetal Developmental Evaluations Ltd   (United States)

^c Children's Hospital Oklahoma City   (United States)

Author keywords

antiphospholipid; chorioamnionitis; meconium; nucleated red blood cells; palsy; placenta; preeclampsia

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CD8 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; ENDOTHELIN; ENDOTOXIN; FIBRIN; GLUCOSE; HLA ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 6; LUPUS ANTICOAGULANT; MONOKINE; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY; PROSTAGLANDIN; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR; UTERUS SPASMOLYTIC AGENT;

AMNION FLUID; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; ERYTHROBLAST; FETUS HYPOXIA; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; ISCHEMIA; MECONIUM; MICROSCOPY; NECROSIS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PLACENTA VILLUS; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0029970421     PISSN: 10771042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/107710496175705     Document Type: Article

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