The effect of maternal blood contamination on amniotic fluid glucose and white blood cell count from preterm gestations

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 185-187

  Carlan, S J ^a,b   Gearity, Douglas E ^a,b   O’Brien, William F ^a,b   Roth, Lynn ^a,b  

^a Arnold Palmer Hospital for Women and Children   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MATERNAL BLOOD; PREDICTION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030024506     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00006250-199602000-00005     Document Type: Article

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