Visual and cerebral sequelae of very low birth weight in adolescents

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Hellgren, Kerstin ^a,b   Hellstrom A ^c   Jacobson, L ^b   Flodmark, O ^b   Wadsby, M ^d   Martin, L ^b  

^a ST ERIK S EYE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTELLIGENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROGNOSIS; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; STRABISMUS; VISION DISORDERS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 34347354353     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.101899     Document Type: Article

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