Neonatal subgaleal hematoma: Presentation and outcome - Radiological findings and factors associated with mortality

American Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-48

  Kilani, Ramzi A ^a   Wetmore, Julie ^a  

^a ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hematoma; Subgaleal; Vacuum

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FORCEPS DELIVERY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFANT; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; JAUNDICE; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLOR; PARITY; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PHOTOTHERAPY; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SEIZURE; SEX RATIO; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SUBGALEAL HEMATOMA; VACUUM EXTRACTION;

BIRTH INJURIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EXTRACTION, OBSTETRICAL; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 32244443191     PISSN: 07351631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-923438     Document Type: Article

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