Major birth defects in very low birth weight infants in the Vermont Oxford Network

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 366-373

  Suresh, Gautham K ^a,b   Horbar, Jeffrey D ^a,b   Kenny, Michael ^a,b   Carpenter, Joseph H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CARDIOVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM MALFORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

EID: 0034824992     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mpd.2001.117072     Document Type: Article

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