Corrected head circumference centiles as a possible predictor of developmental performance in high-risk neonatal intensive care unit survivors

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 766-770

  Bolduc, François V ^a   Shevell, Michael I ^b  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CEPHALOMETRY; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; INFANT; NEWBORN; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVOR;

CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 27744483320     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001216220500160X     Document Type: Article

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