Cerebellar haemorrhages and pons development in extremely low birth weight infants

Frontiers in Bioscience - Elite

Volumn 1 E, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 537-541

  Fumagalli, Monica ^a   Ramenghi, Luca Antonio ^a   Righini, Andrea ^b   Groppo, Michela ^a   Bassi, Laura ^a   De Carli, Agnese ^a   Parazzini, Cecilia ^b   Triulzi, Fabio ^b   Mosca, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Ospedale Pediatrico   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain MRI; Cerebellar haemorrhage; ELBW; Pons

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEPHALOMETRY; CEREBELLUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PONS;

AGE FACTORS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CEPHALOMETRY; CEREBELLUM; HUMANS; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS;

EID: 77953643677     PISSN: 19450494     EISSN: 19450508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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