First 25 years of the Hungarian Congenital Abnormality Registry

Teratology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 299-305

  Czeizel, A E ^a,b  

^a National Institute of Public Health Budapest   (Hungary)

^b OKI National Institute for Public Education Budapest   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; HUNGARY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PATIENT MONITORING; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGISTER;

ABNORMALITIES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; HUNGARY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; TERATOLOGY;

EID: 0030874065     PISSN: 00403709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9926(199705)55:5<299::AID-TERA1>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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