Mercury content of blood transfusions for infants with extremely low birth weight

Pediatrics

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 331-334

  Elabiad, Mohamad T ^a   Hook, Rebecca E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood transfusions; Infants; Mercury

Indexed keywords

MERCURY;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MERCURIALISM; NEWBORN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; TRACE METAL BLOOD LEVEL;

ANEMIA, NEONATAL; BLOOD SAFETY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MERCURY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 80051497492     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-3712     Document Type: Article

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