Maturational changes in skin color of Japanese newborn infants

Neonatology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 275-280

  Watanabe, M ^a   Ohki, Y ^a   Yoshizawa, Y ^a   Inoue, Y ^a   Tokuyama, K ^a   Morikawa, A ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CIE L*a*b* color space; Gestational age, maturational skin color changes; Skin color, Japanese newborn infants; Tristimulus photocolorimeter

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATURATION; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN COLOR;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BILIRUBIN; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; OXYGEN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 34250636789     PISSN: 16617800     EISSN: 16617819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000100082     Document Type: Article

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