Cranial ultrasound and MRI at term age in extremely preterm infants

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Horsch, Sandra ^a,b   Skiold B ^a   Hallberg, B ^a   Nordell, B ^c   Nordell, A ^c   Mosskin, M ^c   Lagercrantz, H ^a   Aden U ^a   Blennow, M ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN CYST; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TISSUE INJURY; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER ABNORMALITY; BRAIN INJURIES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN INJURIES; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77955749234     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.161547     Document Type: Article

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