Diurnal non-stress test variations in healthy term fetuses. A call for evening appointments for fetal testing

Early Human Development

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 127-130

  Petrikovsky, Boris M ^a,b   Kaplan, Gary P ^a  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal assessment; Fetal behavior; NST

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; FETUS MONITORING; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN;

EID: 0030063922     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-3782(95)01699-6     Document Type: Article

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