Fetal growth in diabetic pregnancy

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 771-786

  Moore, Thomas R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO GROWTH; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS HYPOXIA; GENETICS; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MACROSOMIA; OBESITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; REVIEW;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY COMPOSITION; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL MACROSOMIA; FETUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY IN DIABETICS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 0031428191     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003081-199712000-00012     Document Type: Review

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