Macrosomia: Can we prevent big problems with big babies?

Birth

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 263-267

  Sandmire, Herbert F ^a   Woolley, Robert J ^b  

^a OB GYN Associates of Green Bay Ltd   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CESAREAN SECTION; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INJURY; MACROSOMIA; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CESAREAN SECTION; FETAL MACROSOMIA; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MORBIDITY;

EID: 0032247211     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-536X.1998.00263.x     Document Type: Article

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