Placental growth patterns affect birth w
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Carolyn M. Salafia; Jun Zhang; Richard K. Miller; Adrian K. Charles; Patrick Shr
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## BACKGROUND: An important contributor to fetal growth is growth of the placenta, the fetus' sole source of nutrients and oxygen. Here we use placental growth measures (larger and smaller disk diameters, reflecting the laterally expanding chorionic plate, and disk thickness) to test t