Basal ganglia damage and impaired visual function in the newborn infant

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1997, Pages

  Mercuri, Eugenio ^a,b   Atkinson, Janette ^a   Braddick, Oliver ^a   Anker, Shirley ^a   Cowan, Frances ^b   Rutherford, Mary ^b   Pennock, Jackie ^b   Dubowitz, Lilly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; MRI; Vision; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; NEWBORN INFECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 0031428428     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.77.2.F111     Document Type: Article

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