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Assessment and Evaluation of the High Risk Neonate: The NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale
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Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and bilirubin neurotoxicity: what can be learned from the database analysis?
Marie-Coralie Cornet1, Alex R Kemper2, M Jeffrey Maisels3
1Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. marie-coralie.cornet@ucsf.edu.
Pediatric Research
|February 9, 2022
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