Central nervous system malformations in Chilean hospitals participating in the Latin American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (ECLAMC);Malformaciones del sistema nervioso central en el Hospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile y maternidades chilenas participantes en el Estudio Colaborativo Latinoamericano de Malformaciones Congénitas (ECLAMC)

Revista Medica de Chile

Volumn 129, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1163-1170

  Nazer H, Julio ^a   Cifuentes O, Lucía ^a   Rodríguez C, Mariela ^a,b   Rojas N, Mildred ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Abnormalities; Congenital Defects; Fetal Diseases; Nervous System

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ABNORMALITIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILE; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0035496549     PISSN: 00349887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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