A girl with a birth weight of 280 g, now 14 years old [6]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 351, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 836-837

  Muraskas, Jonathan ^a   Hasson, Albert ^b   Besinger, Richard E ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Northwest Pediatrics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLOW UP; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LETTER; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; SURVIVORS;

EID: 4143120187     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200408193510826     Document Type: Letter

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