Birth weight references for twins

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 182, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1250-1257

  Min, Sung Joon ^a   Luke, Barbara ^b   Gillespie, Brenda ^a   Min, Linda ^b   Newman, Roger B ^c   Mauldin, Jill G ^c   Witter, Frank R ^d   Salman, Fawwaz A ^e   O'Sullivan, Mary Jo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intrauterine growth of twins; Twin birth weight

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWINS;

EID: 0034120623     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mob.2000.104923     Document Type: Article

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