Customised assessment of fetal growth potential: Implications for perinatal care

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Gardosi, Jason ^a  

^a West Midlands Perinatal Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTEPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; AUSTRALIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MACROSOMIA; NEW ZEALAND; PERINATAL CARE; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TOCOLYSIS; UMBILICAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS WEIGHT; GROWTH CURVE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; AWARENESS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; RESUSCITATION; STILLBIRTH;

BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL WEIGHT; FETUS; GROWTH CHARTS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84865812309     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fetalneonatal-2012-301708     Document Type: Review

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