Preventing kernicterus: A wake-up call

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Ives, Kevin ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KERNICTERUS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

BILIRUBIN; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA, NEONATAL; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAUNDICE, NEONATAL; KERNICTERUS; PERINATAL CARE;

EID: 34548774464     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.112342     Document Type: Short Survey

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