Ultrasound detection of posterior fossa abnormalities in full-term neonates

Early Human Development

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 233-239

  Steggerda, Sylke J ^a   de Bruïne, Francisca T ^a   Smits Wintjens, Vivianne E H J ^a   Walther, Frans J ^a   van Wezel Meijler, Gerda ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain; Diagnostic techniques and procedures; Fossa Posterior; Full term infant; Mastoid fontanelle; Newborn; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL POSTERIOR FOSSA MALFORMATION; CRANIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FONTANEL; HUMAN; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; MASTOID FONTANELLE; MEASUREMENT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR FOSSA; REVIEW; SKULL MALFORMATION;

BONE DISEASES; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; NEONATAL SCREENING; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; TERM BIRTH;

EID: 84858332448     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: 18726232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2011.08.011     Document Type: Review

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