Ultrasound derived fetal growth curves for a Jamaican population

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 99-110

  Thame, M ^a,b   Osmond, C ^a,b   Fletcher, H ^a,b   Forrester, T E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ACCURACY; AFRICA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FEMUR; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS RISK; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH CURVE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; JAMAICA; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OBSTETRIC CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRENATAL CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDIZATION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CROWN-RUMP LENGTH; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAMAICA; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0042388131     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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