The quality of fetal arm movements as indicators of fetal stress

Early Human Development

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 813-816

  Reissland, Nadja ^a   Francis, Brian ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fetal upper limb movements; Quality of fetal movements

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BACK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS MOVEMENT; HICCUP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL STRESS; VIDEORECORDING;

FEMALE; FETAL MOVEMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HICCUP; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PREGNANCY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 78649711416     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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