Extensive brain injury in a premature infant following a relatively minor maternal motor vehicle accident with airbag deployment

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 454-457

  Karimi, Prameela ^a   Ramus, Ronald ^a   Urban, Jill ^a   Perlman, Jeffrey M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b Division of Nuclear Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LUNG SURFACTANT; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; DEATH; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYALINE MEMBRANE DISEASE; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESUSCITATION; SAFETY; SEATBELT; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AIR BAGS; BRAIN INJURIES; CESAREAN SECTION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PRENATAL INJURIES;

EID: 4043162884     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7211143     Document Type: Article

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