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STUDIES ON MATURITY IN NEWBORN INFANTS
Author(s) -
FINNSTRÖM ORVAR
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1971.tb07010.x
Subject(s) - medicine , gestational age , birth weight , head circumference , anthropometry , heel , circumference , appropriate for gestational age , small for gestational age , perimeter , obstetrics , pediatrics , pregnancy , anatomy , biology , genetics , geometry , mathematics
Summary Five anthropometric measurements, birth weight, crown‐heel length, head circumference, occipito‐frontal diameter, and bi‐parietal diameter were recorded in a group of 174 newborn infants of various gestational ages. The material was selected to contain a relatively large number of infants with extreme birth weights and/or gestational ages. Head circumference was better correlated to gestational age than were the other four measurements. Birth weight and crown‐heel length had the same degree of correlation to gestational age. The two skull diameters showed significantly lower correlations to gestational age. The confidence limits for estimating gestational age on the basis of the mean value for head circumference were ±26.1 days in this material. In SGA infants, crown‐heel length and head circumference were not significantly greater than in pre‐term infants of the same birth weight.