Placental assessment: Simple techniques to enhance best practice

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 32-37

  Kent, Alison L ^a   Dahlstrom, Jane E ^a  

^a CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Education; Histopathology; Placenta; Policy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOGENETICS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MIDWIFE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PATHOLOGIST; PERINATAL DEATH; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLACENTA PREVIA; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

BENCHMARKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PLACENTA PREVIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PREMATURE BIRTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33645070184     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2006.00511.x     Document Type: Article

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