Can placental histology establish the timing of meconium passage during labor?

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 863-868

  Incerti, Maddalena ^a   Locatelli, Anna ^a   Consonni, Sara ^a   Bono, Francesca ^a   Leone, Biagio E ^a   Ghidini, Alessandro ^a  

^a SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

labor; macrophage; Meconium; membrane rupture; placenta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNION; AMNIOTOMY; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHORION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; LABOR; MACROPHAGE; MECONIUM; MECONIUM UPTAKE; NEWBORN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; UMBILICAL CORD; VASCULAR LESION;

ADULT; AMNIOTIC FLUID; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MECONIUM; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 79960370368     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: 16000412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0412.2011.01159.x     Document Type: Article

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