The prevalence of congenital anomalies in Europe

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 686, Issue , 2010, Pages 349-364

  Dolk, Helen ^a   Loane, Maria ^b   Garne, Ester ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Congenital anomalies; Perinatal mortality; Prevalence; Registers

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DOWN SYNDROME; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUROPE; FETUS DEATH; GASTROSCHISIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; OMPHALOCELE; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; STILLBIRTH; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; REGISTER; REVIEW; UMBILICAL HERNIA;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; DOWN SYNDROME; EUROPE; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; GASTROSCHISIS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HERNIA, UMBILICAL; HUMANS; HYPOSPADIAS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PERINATAL MORTALITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 79952058211     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9485-8_20     Document Type: Article

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