Fetal growth: Too big, too little, just right

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-2

  Dickinson, Jan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; EDITORIAL; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS GROWTH; FETUS HYPOXIA; FETUS WEIGHT; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; MACROSOMIA; MATERNAL OBESITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER DYSTOCIA; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; STILLBIRTH; VAGINAL DELIVERY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; PREGNANCY;

FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84923257729     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajo.12320     Document Type: Editorial

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