The significance of amniotic fluid interleukin-6 levels in preterm labour

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 403-406

  Kara, Mustafa ^a   Özden, Selçuk ^a,b   Arioglu, Petek ^a   Çetin, Ahmet ^a  

^a Zeynep Kamil Maternity Hospital   (Turkey)

^b Ethem Efendi Cad   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION FLUID; ARTICLE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DELIVERY; FEMALE; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TOCOLYSIS;

EID: 0031773342     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.1998.tb03097.x     Document Type: Article

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