Mid-trimester maternal serum AFP levels in predicting adverse pregnancy outcome

Clinical and Experimental Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 208-210

  Gkogkos, P ^a   Androutsopoulos, Georgios ^a,b   Vassilakos, P ^a   Panayiotakis, G ^a   Kourounis, G ^a   Decavalas, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adverse pregnancy outcome; Maternal serum AFP levels

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; FOLLOW UP; GESTATION PERIOD; GREECE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PLACENTA INSUFFICIENCY; PREDICTION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UTERINE ARTERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 49949086772     PISSN: 03906663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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