Clinical associations and time of onset of cerebral white matter damage in very preterm babies

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 75, Issue 1 SUPPL., 1996, Pages

  Murphy, Deirdre J ^a,b   Squier, Marian V ^b   Hope, Peter L ^c   Sellers, Susan ^c   Johnson, Ann ^a  

^a RADCLIFFE INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Neuropathology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebral white matter damage; Neuroimaging; Prenatal ischaemia; Very preterm

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FETUS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; ONSET AGE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0029941047     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.75.1.f27     Document Type: Article

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