Fetal brain to liver weight ratio as a measure of Intrauterine growth retardation: Analysis of 182 stillborn autopsies

Modern Pathology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 14-19

  Mitchell, M L ^a  

^a CHRISTIANA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Fetal development; Fetal growth retardation; Intrauterine growth retardation; Pathology; Small for gestational age

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN WEIGHT; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LIVER WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; STILLBIRTH;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN; CROWN-RUMP LENGTH; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL WEIGHT; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; LIVER; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035144936     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.3880251     Document Type: Article

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