Assessment of rapid fetal fibronectin in predicting preterm delivery

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 280-284

  Tekesin, Ismail ^a   Marek, Susanne ^a   Hellmeyer, Lars ^a   Reitz, Daniela ^a   Schmidt, Stephan ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FETOPROTEIN; FIBRONECTIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; PREDICTION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE CERVIX;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COHORT STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FIBRONECTINS; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 13644271574     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000150557.00298.47     Document Type: Article

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