Preventing preterm birth: Are we making any progress?

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 227-232

  Kramer, Michael S ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESAREAN SECTION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE;

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; OBSTETRICS; PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031418644     PISSN: 00440086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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