Fetal growth and well-being

Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 159-176

  Lerner, Jodi P ^a  

^a Department of Orthopaedic Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID; BIOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS BREATHING; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; FETUS MONITORING; FETUS MOVEMENT; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LABOR INDUCTION; MACROSOMIA; MATERNAL DISEASE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; OOCYTE; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOCIOECONOMICS; THROMBOPHILIA; TRISOMY; ULTRASOUND; UTERUS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VIRUS INFECTION; WELLBEING;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL MACROSOMIA; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 1642310546     PISSN: 08898545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0889-8545(03)00121-9     Document Type: Review

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