Gestational age in twins.
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Gestational age in twins.
Dubowitz et al. have offered a scoring system for estimating the gestational age of newborn babies. If the system is applied to twin pairs, the heavier twin is generally estimated to have a greater gestational age than the lighter one. Previously this has been interpreted as a flaw in the scoring system. However, it may well be that in some twin pairs the gestational ages are slightly different...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1980
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.55.4.281