The prevalence at birth of overt congenital anomalies in Urmia, Northwestern Iran

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 148-151

  Abdi Rad, Isa ^a   Khoshkalam, Masomeh ^b   Farrokh Islamlou, Hamid Reza ^b  

^a URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Birth defect; Congenital anomaly; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; BIRTH RATE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM MALFORMATION; EAR MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FETUS MORTALITY; HUMAN; IRAN; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM MALFORMATION; NECK MALFORMATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; STILLBIRTH; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRAN; MALE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 41149135392     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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