Elevated amniotic fluid interleukin-6 as a predictor of neonatal periventricular leukomalacia and intraventricular hemorrhage

Journal of Maternal-Fetal Investigation

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 101-107

  Martinez, Edilberto ^a   Figueroa, Reinaldo ^a   Carry, David ^a   Visintainer, Paul ^a   Patel, Kirit ^a   Verma, Uma ^b   Sehgal, Pravin B ^b   Tejani, Nergesh ^b  

^a Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology Cell Biology and Anatomy   (United States)

^b 2Nd Floor ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Amniotic fluid culture; Amniotic fluid interleukin 6; Histologic chorioamnionitis; Intraventricular hemorrhage; Periventricular leukomalacia

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOMALACIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NEWBORN; PLACENTA; PREDICTION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM;

EID: 0031692223     PISSN: 09396322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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