Neurobehavioural profile of low-birthweight infants with cystic periventricular leukomalacia

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 221-228

  Ohgi, Shoei ^a   Akiyama, Tomitaro ^b   Fukuda, Masafumi ^b  

^a SEIREI CHRISTOPHER UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AGE FACTORS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKOMALACIA, PERIVENTRICULAR; LOGISTIC MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 16844382358     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162205000447     Document Type: Article

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