Multiple courses of antenatal corticosteroids

The Lancet

Volumn 372, Issue 9656, 2008, Pages 2094-2095

  Newnham, John P ^a   Simmer, Karen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG USE; FETUS GROWTH; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME;

EID: 57649142776     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61903-0     Document Type: Note

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