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The macrosomic infant: a high risk complication

J M Svigos

    The Medical Journal of Australia
    |March 7, 1981
    PubMed

    A retrospective analysis was made of 110 macrosomic infants in an effort to detect predictive factors which may influence the management of labour and delivery of such infants. Clinical suspicion of a macrosomic infant by the obstetrician was the most constant predictive factor antenatally. Measures to reduce the increased maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality in the delivery of such infants are discussed.

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