Neonatal EEG: A powerful tool in the assessment of brain damage in preterm infants

Brain and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 361-372

  Watanabe, Kazuyoshi ^a   Hayakawa, Fumio ^b   Okumura, Akihisa ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Okazaki City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; EEG; Mental retardation; Neonates; Periventricular hemorrhage; Periventricular leucomalacia; Preterm infants

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; HUMAN; MONITORING; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; REVIEW; ULTRASOUND;

BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE;

EID: 0032772984     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(99)00034-0     Document Type: Review

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