Fetal reduction: A neonatologist's point of view

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 289-291

  Saugstad, Ola Didrik ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMENORRHEA; DELIVERY; EDITORIAL; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS MORTALITY; FETUS WASTAGE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION; TWIN PREGNANCY;

EID: 0037799286     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/jmf.13.5.289.291     Document Type: Editorial

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