Histologic chorioamnionitis and severity of illness in very low birth weight newborns

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 298-302

  De Felice, Claudio ^a   Toti, Paolo ^b   Parrini, Stefano ^b   Del Vecchio, Antonio ^c   Bagnoli, Franco ^b   Latini, Giuseppe ^c,d   Kopotic, Robert J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c PERRINO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e ConMed ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Chorioamnionitis; Infant; Intensive care; Outcome; Predictive value of tests; Premature; Scoring systems

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSIVE CARE; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

CHORIOAMNIONITIS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 19444380592     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000160658.35437.65     Document Type: Article

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