Neonatal outcome in meconium stained amniotic fluid-one year experience

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 711-714

  Shaikh, Erum Majid ^a   Mehmood, Sadaf ^b   Shaikh, Majid Ahmed ^c  

^a CMC   (Pakistan)

^b Shaikh Zayed Federal Postgraduate Medical Institute   (Pakistan)

^c CMC

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MECONIUM; MECONIUM ASPIRATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NURSERY; PAKISTAN; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; APGAR SCORE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MECONIUM; MECONIUM ASPIRATION SYNDROME; PAKISTAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77956202436     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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