Neonatal cranial ultrasound abnormalities in low birth weight infants: Relation to cognitive outcomes at six years of age

Pediatrics

Volumn 98, Issue 4 PART 1, 1996, Pages 719-729

  Whitaker, Agnes H ^a,b,f   Feldman, Judith F ^a   Van Rossem, Ronan ^a   Schonfeld, Irvin Sam ^a,c   Pinto Martin, Jennifer A ^d   Torre, Carolyn ^a   Blumenthal, Suzannah R ^a   Paneth, Nigel S ^e  

^a New York State Psychiatric Institute ^*  (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center

^c CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive outcomes; Low birth weight; Mental retardation; Ultrasound; White matter injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; NEWBORN SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SKILL; VISION; WHITE MATTER;

AGING; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0029800130     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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