Kidney growth in small-for-gestational-age infants: Evidence of early accelerated renal growth

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3422-3427

  Giapros, Vasileios ^a   Drougia, Aikaterini ^a   Hotoura, Efthalia ^a   Papadopoulou, Frederica ^a   Argyropoulou, Maria ^a   Andronikou, Styliani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Kidney growth; Neonate; Renal hypertrophy; Small for gestational age

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CATCH UP GROWTH; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH ACCELERATION; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY COMPENSATORY HYPERTROPHY; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

AGE FACTORS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; KIDNEY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33751439574     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl466     Document Type: Article

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