Umbilical artery Doppler studies in small for gestational age babies reflect disease severity

British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 916-925

  McCowan, Lesley M E ^a   Harding, Jane E ^a   Stewart, Alistair W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALNUTRITION; MOTHER; NEW ZEALAND; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; STATISTICAL MODEL; UMBILICAL ARTERY;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY CONSTITUTION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; NUTRITION DISORDERS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 0034047977     PISSN: 03065456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2000.tb11092.x     Document Type: Article

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