Late gestation cerebellar growth is rapid and impeded by premature birth

Pediatrics

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 688-695

  Limperopoulos, Catherine ^a,b   Soul, Janet S ^a   Gauvreau, Kimberlee ^b   Huppi, Petra S ^a   Warfield, Simon K ^c   Bassan, Haim ^a   Robertson, Richard L ^b   Volpe, Joseph J ^a   Du Plessis, Adré J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Cerebellum; Development; Magnetic resonance; Premature infants

Indexed keywords

APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN GROWTH; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM INJURY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CEREBELLUM; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 20344376442     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-1169     Document Type: Article

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