International fetal growth standards: One size fits all

The Lancet

Volumn 384, Issue 9946, 2014, Pages 835-836

  McCarthy, Elizabeth A ^a   Walker, Susan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL CIRCUMFERENCE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; BIOMETRY; BIPARIETAL DISTANCE; ETHNICITY; FEMUR; FETUS GROWTH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; INTERNATIONAL FETAL GROWTH STANDARD; NOTE; OCCIPITOFRONTAL DIAMETER; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84907284085     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61416-1     Document Type: Note

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