Isolated cerebral cortical tears in children: Aetiology, characterisation and differentiation from non-accidental head injury

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 82, Issue 981, 2009, Pages 735-741

  Au Yong, I T H ^a   Wardle, S P ^a   McConachie, N S ^a   Jaspan, T ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; APNEA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBRAL CORTICAL TEAR; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFANT; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; LABORATORY TEST; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN JAUNDICE; NONACCIDENTAL HEAD INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOTHERAPY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; SCHIZENCEPHALY; SEIZURE; SHOULDER DYSTOCIA; XANTHOCHROMIA;

BIRTH INJURIES; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD ABUSE; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349120394     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/81603888     Document Type: Article

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