Does histologic chorioamnionitis correspond to clinical chorioamnionitis?

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-28

  Heller, Debra S ^a   Rimpel, Lisa Howard ^a   Skurnick, Joan H ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chorioamnionitis; Placenta; Pregnancy complications, infectious

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC INFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION PREVENTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PUERPERAL INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 38949147082     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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