Customized Fetal Growth Standards: Rationale and Clinical Application

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-40

  Gardosi, Jason ^a  

^a Perinatal Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS MONITORING; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STANDARD;

EID: 1542346426     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2003.12.002     Document Type: Article

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