The Risks for Very Low Birth Weight Infants from Multiple Pregnancies

Clinics in Perinatology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 587-597

  Shinwell, Eric S ^a   Blickstein, Isaac ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; BIRTH ORDER; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DELIVERY ROOMS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 36549027810     PISSN: 00955108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clp.2007.10.001     Document Type: Review

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