Hand movements at 3 months predict later hemiplegia in term infants with neonatal cerebral infarction

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 767-772

  Guzzetta, Andrea ^a   Pizzardi, Alessandra ^a   Belmonti, Vittorio ^b   Boldrini, Antonio ^c   Carotenuto, Marco ^d   D'Acunto, Giulia ^b   Ferrari, Fabrizio ^e   Fiori, Simona ^b   Gallo, Claudio ^e   Ghirri, Paolo ^c   Mercuri, Eugenio ^f   Romeo, Domenico ^g   Roversi, Maria Federica ^e   Cioni, Giovanni ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^f CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TERM BIRTH; VIDEORECORDING; WRIST;

BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HAND; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77955129606     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2009.03497.x     Document Type: Article

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