Defective implantation and placentation: Laying the blueprint for pregnancy complications

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 591-599

  Norwitz, Errol R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Human; Implantation; Placenta; Pre eclampsia; Pregnancy; Preterm labour

Indexed keywords

PROSTAGLANDIN;

BLEEDING; DECIDUA; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PLACENTA ACCRETA; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; RECURRENT ABORTION; REVIEW; TROPHOBLAST; UTERUS;

EID: 33749674862     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60649-9     Document Type: Review

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