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Paediatric Implications of IUGR with Special Reference to Cerebral Palsy

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Intrauterine growth restriction is a concept signifying that the fetus has not grown as fast as it ought to have grown. The growth-restricted baby would have been bigger were it not for suboptimal genetic and/or environmental factor(s) (Ch. 1). Since we do not know exactly what size the individual newborn ought to be, IUGR cannot be measured directly and its presence has been inferred from several surrogate measures, as outlined in Ch. 1.

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  1. Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Suite 775B, University of Toronto, 600 University Avenue, M5G 1X5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    John Kingdom MD FRCS MRCP MRCOG

  2. School of Human Development, City Hospital, Nottingham University, Hucknall Road, NG5 1PB, Nottingham, UK

    Philip Baker BM BS MRCOG

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Blair, E. (2000). Paediatric Implications of IUGR with Special Reference to Cerebral Palsy. In: Kingdom, J., Baker, P. (eds) Intrauterine Growth Restriction. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0735-4_19

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