Outcome of extremely low birth weight infants (500 to 999 grams) over a 12-year period

Pediatrics

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 633-639

  Piecuch, Robert E ^a,c   Leonard, Carol H ^a   Cooper, Bruce A ^b   Sehring, Sally A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ELBW; Neurodevelopment; Outcome; Premature; Risk

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTELLIGENCE; LEUKOMALACIA, PERIVENTRICULAR; MALE; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0030830169     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.100.4.633     Document Type: Article

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