Kernicterus in preterm infants

Pediatrics

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Okumura, Akihisa ^a,g   Kidokoro, Hiroyuki ^b   Shoji, Hiromichi ^a   Nakazawa, Tomoyuki ^c   Mimaki, Masakazu ^d   Fujii, Katsunori ^e   Oba, Hiroshi ^f   Shimizu, Toshiaki ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b ANJO KOSEI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY URAYASU HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e CHIBA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f TEIKYO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^g JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Athetoid cerebral palsy; Bilirubin; Brainstem auditory evoked potentials; Magnetic resonance imaging; Preterm infants

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DETERIORATION; DYSTONIA; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INFANT; KERNICTERUS; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MUSCLE TONE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BILIRUBIN; CEREBRAL PALSY; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; KERNICTERUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTOTHERAPY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REACTION TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 66249084561     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-2791     Document Type: Article

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