Anogenital distance in Turkish newborns

JCRPE Journal of Clinical Research in Pediatric Endocrinology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 122-125

  Özkan, Behzat ^a   Konak, Belkis ^a   Çayir, Atilla ^a   Konak, Murat ^a  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anogenital distance; Measurement; Newborn

Indexed keywords

ANOGENITAL DISTANCE; ANUS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; DEVELOPMENTAL, AGE AND GROWTH PARAMETERS; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; PERINEUM; REFERENCE VALUE; SCROTUM; SEX DIFFERENCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UROGENITAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VAGINA;

FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; GENITALIA, MALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TURKEY;

EID: 80052882426     PISSN: 13085727     EISSN: 13085735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4274/jcrpe.v3i3.24     Document Type: Article

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