Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
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AMNIOTIC FLUID CREATININE: AN UNRELIABLE INDEX OF FETAL MATURITY
Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1972.tb12187.x
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 79, Issue 10, pages 911–915, October 1972
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Foulds, J. W. and Pennock, C. A. (1972), AMNIOTIC FLUID CREATININE: AN UNRELIABLE INDEX OF FETAL MATURITY. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 79: 911–915. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1972.tb12187.x
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Summary
Amniotic fluid creatinine was measured in 306 samples. There was a wide scatter of values at each week of gestation, and although there was a tendency for the levels to rise with increasing gestational age the scatter was so wide and so much overlap occurred that the method must be regarded as unreliable for estimating maturity in clinical practice.