Neonatal morbidity and mortality associated with triplet pregnancy

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 342-348

  Kaufman, Gary E ^a,b   Malone, Fergal D ^a   Harvey Wilkes, Karen B ^a   Chelmow, David ^a   Penzias, Alan S ^a   D'Alton, Mary E ^a  

^a Dept of Obstetrics and Gynccology

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LUNG COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; STILLBIRTH; TWIN PREGNANCY;

FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES; MULTIPLE BIRTH OFFSPRING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032031396     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(97)00686-8     Document Type: Article

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