Perinatal outcome in 41 sets of triplets in Jordan

Birth

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 185-188

  Ziadeh, Saed M ^a,b  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b Jabal El Hussein   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; DELIVERY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; JORDAN; LABOR COMPLICATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; JORDAN; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIPLETS;

EID: 0034279782     PISSN: 07307659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-536x.2000.00185.x     Document Type: Article

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