Predictive model for fetal lung maturity assessment incorporating Abbott FLM S/A II test results and obstetric estimates of gestational age

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 326, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 1-2

  Tanasijevic, Milenko ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; LUNG SURFACTANT; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; SPHINGOMYELIN; ALBUMINOID;

DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; FETUS MATURITY; LUNG; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; NEWBORN; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ALBUMINS; FEMALE; FETAL ORGAN MATURITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PULMONARY SURFACTANTS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN;

EID: 0036889935     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-8981(02)00335-2     Document Type: Editorial

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