Clinico-epidemiological features of infantile hydrocephalus in Japan

Pediatrics International

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 567-575

  Nakashima, Sachie ^a   Watanabe, Kazuyoshi ^a   Negoro, Tamiko ^a   Aoki, Kunio ^a   Kikuchi, Haruhiko ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Full term infants; Intracranial hemorrhage; Preterm infants; Primary hydrocephalus; Secondary hydrocephalus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; JAPAN; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0029907085     PISSN: 13288067     EISSN: 1442200X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-200X.1996.tb03710.x     Document Type: Article

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