Vitamin K at birth

BMJ

Volumn 313, Issue 7051, 1996, Pages 179-180

  Zipursky, Alvin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN K GROUP;

BREAST FEEDING; CARCINOGENICITY; CELL SUSPENSION; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPHOCYTE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SISTER CHROMATID EXCHANGE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ERYTHROBLASTOSIS, FETAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA; NEOPLASMS; VITAMIN K; VITAMIN K DEFICIENCY;

EID: 0029973315     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.313.7051.179     Document Type: Editorial

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