The changing epidemiology of infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis in Scotland

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1007-1011

  Sommerfield, T ^a   Chalmers, James ^a   Youngson, G ^b   Heeley, C ^a   Fleming, M ^a   Thomson, G ^a  

^a INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC PYLORUS STENOSIS; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; INFANTILE HYPERTROPHIC PYLORUS STENOSIS; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL SMOKING; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; SUPINE POSITION;

BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT CARE; MALE; PRONE POSITION; PYLORIC STENOSIS, HYPERTROPHIC; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SLEEP; SMOKING; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 57149097128     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2007.128090     Document Type: Article

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