Postmortem lung weight/body weight standards for term and preterm infants

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 445-448

  De Paepe, Monique E ^a,b   Friedman, Rebecca M ^a   Gundogan, Fusun ^a   Pinar, Halit ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOMEN AND INFANTS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia; Lung hypoplasia; Oligohydramnios; Rupture of membranes

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BODY WEIGHT; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; LUNG WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD;

BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; FETAL ORGAN MATURITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; KIDNEY; LUNG; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 27544483986     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.20218     Document Type: Article

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