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. 2025 Sep 12.
doi: 10.1038/s41372-025-02413-y. Online ahead of print.

Trends in incidence of gastroschisis before and after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic

Nicola Perlman  1 , Elizabeth B Sherwin  2 , Stephanie A Leonard  2 , Deirdre J Lyell  2   3   4 , Jochen Profit  3   4   5 , Yair J Blumenfeld  2
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Trends in incidence of gastroschisis before and after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic

Nicola Perlman et al. J Perinatol. .
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Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests. Ethics approval and consent to participate: Ethics approval was not required for this study. This study was performed on de-identified data with no human or animal study subjects.

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