Early postnatal skin colour changes in term newborns with subclinical histological chorioamnionitis

European Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 163, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 550-554

  De Felice, Claudio ^a   Vacca, Paola ^b   Del Vecchio, Antonio ^b   Criscuolo, Mario ^b   Lozupone, Antonia ^b   Latini, Giuseppe ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b PERRINO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apgar score; Chorioamnionitis diagnosis; Colourimetry; Infant; Newborn; Placenta diseases; Skin

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; BACK; BUTTOCK; CHEEK; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FETUS (ANATOMY); FOOT SOLE; FOREARM; FOREHEAD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HAND PALM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; POSTNATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN COLOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORAX; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VASOCONSTRICTION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; COLORIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SKIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 4544260514     PISSN: 03406199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00431-004-1488-8     Document Type: Article

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