Imaging the course of a hypoplastic cerebellum in a spina bifida newborn

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2131-2135

  Kronenburg, Annick ^a   Han, Kuo Sen ^a   Gooskens, Rob ^a   Esposito, Giuseppe ^a   Cochrane, Douglas ^b   Woerdeman, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Central apnea; Cerebellar hypoplasia; Chiari II malformation; Congenital developmental disorder; Spina bifida

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; METHYLXANTHINE;

APGAR SCORE; APNEA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; BREATHING PATTERN; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM HYPOPLASIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHOROID PLEXUS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXAMINATION; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GAZE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH RETARDATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HEMISPHERE; HERNIA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MICROCEPHALY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN THERAPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTERIOR FOSSA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SKIN DEFECT; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; STRABISMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CEREBELLUM; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MICROCEPHALY; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 84888198857     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: 14330350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-013-2156-y     Document Type: Article

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