Decreased thymus size in full-term newborn infants of smoking mothers

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Zeyrek, Dost ^a   Ozturk, Ebru ^b   Ozturk, Adil ^a   Cakmak, Alpay ^a  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Dunya Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Newborn; Pregnancy; Smoking; Thymus size

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BABY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LIFE; MALE; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; THYMUS; WEIGHT;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; SMOKING; TERM BIRTH; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 50249115714     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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