Management of birth injuries

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-38

  Uhing, Michael R ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b Children's Hospital of Wisconsin ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; BIRTH INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS INJURY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHILD CARE; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; EYE INJURY; FACE INJURY; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL NERVE; LIVER INJURY; NERVE INJURY; NOSE SEPTUM; OBSTETRIC CARE; PEDIATRICIAN; PHRENIC NERVE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TORTICOLLIS;

EID: 14944367214     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2004.11.007     Document Type: Review

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