Admission Thyroid Evaluation in Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants: Association with Death and Severe Intraventricular Hemorrhage

Thyroid

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 965-969

  Kantor, Michelle J ^a   Leef, Kathleen H ^b   Bartoshesky, Louis ^c,d,e   Getchell, Jane ^d   Paul, David A ^b,e,f  

^a North Shore Medical Center   (United States)

^b CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^d Delaware Division of Public Health   (United States)

^e THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CHRISTIANA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

EID: 0242268019     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/105072503322511373     Document Type: Article

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