Chickenpox in mid-trimester pregnancy: Always innocent?

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 462-466

  Wheatley, Robert ^a   Morton, Richard E ^b   Nicholson, J ^b  

^a Central School Clinic   (United Kingdom)

^b DERBYSHIRE ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CHICKENPOX; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LIMB; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SKIN DEFECT;

EID: 0029986356     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1996.tb15105.x     Document Type: Article

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