Histologic chorioamnionitis: Different histologic features at different gestational ages

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 910-913

  Torricelli, Michela ^a   Voltolini, Chiara ^a   Toti, Paolo ^a   Vellucci, Francesca Letizia ^a   Conti, Nathalie ^a   Cannoni, Alice ^a   Moncini, Irene ^a   Occhini, Rossella ^a   Severi, Filiberto Maria ^a   Petraglia, Felice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amnionitis; Funisitis; Intrauterine inflammation; Labor; Prematurity

Indexed keywords

AMNIONITIS WITHOUT FUNISITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DECIDUITIS; FEMALE; FETUS MEMBRANE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HISTOLOGIC CHORIOAMNIONITIS WITH FUNISITIS; HISTOLOGICAL CHORIOAMNIONITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LABOR ONSET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BACTERIUM; EMBRYO MEMBRANE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; TERM BIRTH;

BACTERIA; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; TERM BIRTH;

EID: 84901067365     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: 14764954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14767058.2013.846313     Document Type: Article

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