Third ventricle enlargement among newborn infants with trisomy 21

Pediatrics

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Schimmel, Michael S ^a,b   Hammerman, Cathy ^a,b   Bromiker, Ruben ^a,b   Berger, Itai ^c  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Neurodevelopment; Third ventricle; Trisomy 21

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CEPHALOMETRY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRISOMY 21; DOWN SYNDROME; ECHOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY;

CEPHALOMETRY; DOWN SYNDROME; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; THIRD VENTRICLE;

EID: 33646852212     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2005-1788     Document Type: Article

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