Cerebellar Injury in Term Infants: Clinical Characteristics, Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings, and Outcome

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-8

  Limperopoulos, Catherine ^a,b   Robertson, Richard L ^b   Sullivan, Nancy R ^b   Bassan, Haim ^b   du Plessis, Adré J ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBELLUM HEMORRHAGE; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS HEART RATE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL DISEASE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIMIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

AGE FACTORS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXTRACTION, OBSTETRICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTHERS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

EID: 66349100970     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2009.02.007     Document Type: Article

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