The role of birthweight discordance in the intellectual and motor outcome for triplets at early school age

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 822-828

  Natalucci, Giancarlo ^a,b   Seitz, Jochen ^a,c   von Siebenthal, Kurt ^a,b   Bucher, Hans U ^b   Molinari, Luciano ^a   Jenni, Oskar G ^a   Latal, Beatrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT SCALE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTELLECT; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; KAUFMAN ASSESSMENT BATTERY FOR CHILDREN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSING COMPOSITE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREMATURITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS; SPEECH THERAPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; ZURICH NEUROMOTOR ASSESSMENT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRIPLETS;

EID: 79960938090     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.04024.x     Document Type: Article

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