Early Human Development
Volume 86, Issue 6 , Pages 391-396 , June 2010

The influence of early postnatal nutrition on retinopathy of prematurity in extremely low birth weight infants

  • Peter J. Porcelli

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Departments of Pediatrics, Watlington Hall, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, 27157, United States.
    • ,
  • R. Grey Weaver Jr.

Received 12 October 2009 ,Revised 7 May 2010 ,Accepted 11 May 2010.

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☆ Presented in part at the 75th annual meeting of the Society for Pediatric Research.

PII: S0378-3782(10)00113-1

doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2010.05.015

Early Human Development
Volume 86, Issue 6 , Pages 391-396 , June 2010

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