Cranial ultrasound screening in late preterm infants
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Cranial ultrasound screening in late preterm infants
Late preterm births have enormously increased in the last decades and there is mounting evidence showing that infants born late preterm are less healthy than infants born at term [1] and they are more likely to develop neonatal morbidities (temperature instability, respiratory distress syndrome, excessive weight loss and dehydration requiring intravenous infusion, sepsis, hypoglycemia and jaund...
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عنوان ژورنال: Italian Journal of Pediatrics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1824-7288
DOI: 10.1186/1824-7288-40-s2-a20