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Birth outcomes among military personnel after exposure to documented open-air burn pits before and during pregnancy.
OBJECTIVE To examine birth outcomes in military women and men with potential exposure to documented open-air burn pits before and during pregnancy. METHODS Electronic data from the Department of Defense Birth and Infant Health Registry and the Defense Manpower Data Center were used to examine the prevalence of birth defects and preterm birth among infants of active-duty women and men who were...
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BACKGROUND Congenital dermal sinuses represent cutaneous depressions or tracts that are lined by stratified squamous epithelium. They communicate between the surface of the skin and deeper structures and may occur anywhere along the craniospinal axis. These sinuses are thought to result from abnormal separation of the cutaneous and neural ectoderm between the third and fifth week of intrauterin...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1073-449X,1535-4970
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.2017p13