Single photon emission computed tomography and serial MRI in preterm infants with kernicterus

Brain and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 348-352

  Okumura, Akihisa ^a   Hayakawa, Fumio ^b   Maruyama, Koichi ^c   Kubota, Tetsuo ^c   Kato, Katsuhiko ^a   Watanabe, Kazuyoshi ^d  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Okazaki City Hospital   (Japan)

^c ANJO KOSEI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d AICHI SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kernicterus; MRI; Single photon emission computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANT; KERNICTERUS; MALE; NEWBORN PERIOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREMATURITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BASAL GANGLIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL PALSY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; KERNICTERUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33646148712     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2005.11.004     Document Type: Article

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