Applied Physiology: The newborn skin

Current Paediatrics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 226-230

  Rutter, Nicholas ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adhesive; Emollient; Epidermis; Percutaneous absorption; Prematurity; Transepidermal water loss

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE; EMOLLIENT AGENT;

AIR; EPIDERMIS; FLUID BALANCE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INFECTION; INTOXICATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NURSING; ORGANOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; REVIEW; SKIN; SKIN ABSORPTION; SKIN FUNCTION; SKIN INJURY; SKIN WATER LOSS; THERMOREGULATION;

EID: 0038555332     PISSN: 09575839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-5839(03)00008-3     Document Type: Review

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