Neonatal neurologic prognostication: The asphyxiated term newborn

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 776-784

  Shevell, Michael I ^a   Majnemer, Annette ^b   Miller, Steven P ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN;

ACCURACY; APGAR SCORE; ASPHYXIA; BLOOD PH; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEWBORN; OLIGURIA; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SEIZURE; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

APGAR SCORE; ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0032698676     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-8994(99)00102-2     Document Type: Review

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