Motherisk update: Controversies in antenatal corticosteroid treatment

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 46, Issue AUG., 2000, Pages 1571-1573

  Klinger, G ^a   Koren, G ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; BETAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANAMNESIS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CASE REPORT; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; FETUS RISK; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; REVIEW;

BETAMETHASONE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN;

EID: 0034244540     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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