ESTIMATION OF GESTATIONAL AGE OF NIGERIAN NEWBORN INFANTS BY MEASUREMENT OF THORACIC SPINE LENGTH ON CHEST RADIOGRAPHS

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	ODITA, J. C.	-
dc.contributor.author	OMENE, J. A.	-
dc.date.accessioned	2024-07-26T14:24:57Z	-
dc.date.available	2024-07-26T14:24:57Z	-
dc.date.issued	1982	-
dc.identifier.citation	Afr. J. Med. mcd. Sci. (1982) 11, 191 - 194	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1116-4077	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://adhlui.com.ui.edu.ng/jspui/handle/123456789/2445	-
dc.description	ARTICLE	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Thoracic spine length was measured on chest radiographs of forty-nine Nigerian neonates of known gestational age. There is a strong correlation between gestational age and thoracic spine length (r = 0.93). The small-for-gestational-agc (SCiA) infants had thoracic spine lengths below two standard deviations (s.d.) of the mean for the appropriate-for-gestationalage infants. This method is useful for identifying SGA infants on chest radiographs particularly when they are too ill to be subjected to the usual physical and neurological assessment of gestational age	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	COLLEGE OF MEDICINE	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	BLACKWELL SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS	en_US
dc.subject	GESTATIONAL AGE	en_US
dc.subject	NEWBORN	en_US
dc.subject	CHEST	en_US
dc.subject	THORACIC SPINE LENGTH	en_US
dc.title	ESTIMATION OF GESTATIONAL AGE OF NIGERIAN NEWBORN INFANTS BY MEASUREMENT OF THORACIC SPINE LENGTH ON CHEST RADIOGRAPHS	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
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