Value of routine long bone radiographs in management of babies with a positive VDRL at the Mount Hope Women's Hospital

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 225-227

  Busby, G ^a   Ali, Z ^a   Simeon, D T ^a   Khan, O ^a   Abhang, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BABY; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL SYPHILIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LONG BONE; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRENATAL CARE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE AND BONES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS SERODIAGNOSIS; SYPHILIS, CONGENITAL;

EID: 0036986359     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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