Meconium-stained amniotic fluid and neonatal morbidity in near-term and term deliveries with acute histologic chorioamnionitis and/or funisitis

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 537-540

  Rao, Sumana ^a   Pavlova, Zdena ^a   Incerpi, Marc H ^a   Ramanathan, Rangasamy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID; AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FETUS DISTRESS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MECONIUM; MECONIUM ASPIRATION; MEDICAL RECORD; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DISORDER; PREMATURE LABOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AMNIOTIC FLUID; BIRTH WEIGHT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; FEMALE; FETAL DISTRESS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MECONIUM; MORBIDITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 0035687322     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7210564     Document Type: Article

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