The incidence of selected congenital malformations during a two-year period in Tehran, Iran

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 156-158

  Delshad, Salaheddin ^a   Tabar, Ahmad Khalegnejad ^b   Samae, Hadi ^a   Mollaean, Mansour ^c   Nasiri, Seyyed Javad ^a   Jazayeri, Seyyed Mohammad ^b   Moharamzad, Yashar ^a   Amini, Arash ^c  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TERATOGENIC AGENT;

ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ANUS ATRESIA; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BLADDER EXSTROPHY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CLUBFOOT; COMMON BILE DUCT CYST; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDUCATION; ENCEPHALOCELE; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GOVERNMENT; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HIP DISLOCATION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOSPADIAS; INCIDENCE; INTERVENTION STUDY; IRAN; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NEWBORN; OMPHALOCELE; ORGANIZATION; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; PIERRE ROBIN SYNDROME; POPULATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; UROGENITAL TRACT MALFORMATION;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRAN; MALE;

EID: 67650346298     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/td.2008.070434     Document Type: Article

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