Computerised evaluation of fetal heart rate in post-term fetuses: Long term variation

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 356-359

  Mandruzzato, Giampaolo ^a   Meir, Yoram J ^a   D’Ottavio, Giuseppina ^a   Conoscenti, Giancarlo ^a   Dawes, Geoffrey S ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLONGED PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUE;

CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; INFANT, POSTMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0031913898     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1998.tb10100.x     Document Type: Article

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