Birth Defects Are Preventable
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Birth Defects Are Preventable
Editorial Birth defects – or by according to the World Health Organization's (WHO) term: congenital anomalies – are structural, functional and/or biochemical-molecular defects present at birth whether detected at that time or not (Figure 1). Among different categories of birth defects, congenital abnormalities, i.e. structural-morphological defects represent the largest one. Congenital abnormal...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Medical Sciences
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1449-1907
DOI: 10.7150/ijms.2.91