Pruritus in pregnancy and obstetric cholestasis

Hospital Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 254-260

  Justin Clark, T ^a   Dwarakanath, Linga ^a   Weaver, Judith B ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLAGOGUE; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

CHOLESTASIS; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRURITUS; REVIEW;

CHOLAGOGUES AND CHOLERETICS; CHOLESTASIS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRURITUS; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

EID: 0033111587     PISSN: 14623935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12968/hosp.1999.60.4.1091     Document Type: Article

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