Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: An overview

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 298-302

  Mukherjee, Raja A S ^a   Hollins, Sheila ^a   Turk, J ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; APOPTOSIS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL GENETICS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MOTHER; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; ULTRASOUND; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 33745761191     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.99.6.298     Document Type: Review

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