Evolving Understanding of Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy in the Term Infant

Seminars in Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 216-225

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

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW;

ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; BRAIN; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 70549103501     PISSN: 10719091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spen.2009.09.001     Document Type: Review

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