Cranial ultrasound findings in well newborn Ugandan infants

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Hagmann, C F ^a   Robertson, N J ^a   Acolet, D ^b   Chan, D ^c   Onda, S ^c   Nyombi, N ^d   Nakakeeto, M ^d   Cowan, Francis M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN VENTRICLE TUMOR; CHOROID PLEXUS CYST; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LENTICULOSTRIATE VASCULOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN ASSESSMENT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOCYST; SUBEPENDYMAL PSEUDOCYST; UGANDA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VASCULAR DISEASE; WHITE MATTER; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; PROCEDURES;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; UGANDA;

EID: 77955725490     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.174607     Document Type: Article

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