Incidence of periventricular leucomalacia among a cohort of very low birth weight neonates (<1500 g)

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 210-216

  Maria, Arti ^a   Gupta, Arun ^a   Aggarwal, Rajiv ^a   Sreenivas, V ^a   Paul, V K ^a   Deorari, A K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Periventricular leucomalacia (PVL); Ultrasound; Very low birth weight (VLBW)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PERINATAL PERIOD; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LEUKOMALACIA, PERIVENTRICULAR; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33645548165     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 00196061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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