A population-based study of abdominal wall defects in South Australia and Western Australia

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 136-151

  Byron Scott, Rosemary ^a   Haan, Eric ^a   Chan, Annabelle ^a   Bower, Carol ^b   Scott, Heather ^a   Clark, Kathryn ^a  

^a WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b KING EDWARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH DEFECT; BLADDER EXSTROPHY; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOACA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROSCHISIS; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; UMBILICAL HERNIA;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ABNORMALITIES; ADULT; BLADDER EXSTROPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HERNIA, UMBILICAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL AGE; ODDS RATIO; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; UMBILICAL CORD; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031852787     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3016.1998.00090.x     Document Type: Article

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