Descriptive epidemiology of anophthalmia and microphthalmia, Hawaii, 1986-2001

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 187-192

  Forrester, Mathias B ^a   Merz, Ruth D ^a  

^a Hawaii Birth Defects Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Anophthalmia; Birth defects; Hawaii; Microphthalmia

Indexed keywords

ANOPHTHALMIA; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DESCRIPTIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENDER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROPHTHALMIA; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; REGISTER; RISK; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ANOPHTHALMOS; FEMALE; HAWAII; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICROPHTHALMOS; REGISTRIES;

EID: 33645530617     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20237     Document Type: Article

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