Pathological assessment of intrauterine growth restriction

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 751-764

  Cox, Phillip ^a   Marton, Tamas ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM CHILDREN S HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

birth weight; brain liver weight ratio; centile; histology; IUGR; pathology; placenta

Indexed keywords

DNA; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN WEIGHT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DNA EXTRACTION; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS GROWTH; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LIVER WEIGHT; MEASLES VIRUS; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLACENTA VILLUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUBELLA VIRUS; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STILLBIRTH; THYMUS ATROPHY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21; UMBILICAL CORD; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; INFECTION; LIVER; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT;

BRAIN; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; INFECTION; LIVER; PLACENTA DISEASES; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY;

EID: 71849094570     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2009.06.006     Document Type: Article

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