The current approach to the assessment of fetal renal function: Fact or fiction?

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 230-235

  Spitzer, Adrian ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetus; Hydronephrosis; Renal function

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE; PROTEIN;

ELECTROLYTE URINE LEVEL; FETUS; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN URINE LEVEL; SHORT SURVEY; URINALYSIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0029993596     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00862090     Document Type: Short Survey

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