Evaluation of 1025 fetal deaths: Proposed diagnostic workup

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 53.e1-53.e12

  Korteweg, Fleurisca J ^a   Erwich, Jan Jaap H M ^a   Timmer, Albertus ^a   Van Der Meer, Jan ^a   Ravisé, Joke M ^a   Veeger, Nic J G M ^a   Holm, Jozien P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

antepartum stillbirth; cause of death; intrauterine fetal death; workup

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBIN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; PROTEIN C; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIABETIC COMA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MONOSOMY X; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARVOVIRUS INFECTION; PLACENTA DISORDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RUBELLA; SYPHILIS; THROAT CULTURE; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 18; TRISOMY 21;

EID: 84455189485     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: 10976868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2011.10.026     Document Type: Article

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