Consideration on the methodology of a simple and effective birth defect monitoring system

Congenital Anomalies

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 269-274

  Ohtani, Kyoichi ^a   Kenzo, Takeshita ^b  

^a TOTTORI PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Birth defect; Epidemiology; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950049515     PISSN: 09143505     EISSN: 17414520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4520.2000.tb00924.x     Document Type: Article

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