Should cranial MRI screening of preterm infants become routine?

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 532-533

  de Vries, Linda S ^a   Cowan, Frances M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; GESTATION PERIOD; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INFANT; MEDICAL EXPERT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN SCREENING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PREDICTION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 34948837311     PISSN: 1745834X     EISSN: 17458358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneuro0608     Document Type: Review

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