Expectation of life and unexpected death in open spina bifida: A 40-year complete, non-selective, longitudinal cohort study

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 749-753

  Oakeshott, Pippa ^a   Hunt, Gillian M ^b   Poulton, Alison ^c   Reid, Fiona ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Grantchester St   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INTERVIEW; KIDNEY INFECTION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESTYLE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEPSIS; SPINA BIFIDA; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; SPINA BIFIDA CYSTICA; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955142393     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2009.03543.x     Document Type: Article

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