Frontal horn thin walled cysts in preterm neonates are benign

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2001, Pages

  Pal, B R ^a   Preston, P R ^a   Morgan, M E I ^a   Rushton, D I ^b   Durbin, G M ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Pathology ^*

Author keywords

Brain; Cranial; Frontal horn cysts; Preterm; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 2442575995     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 13592998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.85.3.f187     Document Type: Article

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