Correlation of brain ultrasonography scans to the neuromotor outcome of very-low-birth-weight infants during the first year of life

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1429-1435

  Karagianni, Paraskevi ^a   Rallis, Dimitrios ^a   Kyriakidou, Maria ^a   Tsakalidis, Christos ^a   Pratsiou, Paraskevi ^a   Nikolaidis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

neonates; neurodevelopment; prematurity; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

BRAIN VENTRICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREMATURITY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LEUKOMALACIA, PERIVENTRICULAR; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84908672011     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: 17088283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0883073813479171     Document Type: Article

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