Neonatal death after hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy: Does a postmortem add to the final diagnoses?

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 935-940

  Elder, Dawn E ^a,b   Zuccollo, Jane M ^a   Stanley, Thorsten V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Department of Paediatrics   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MALE; MONITOR; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW;

ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 21244441907     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2005.00608.x     Document Type: Review

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