Cranial ultrasound - optimizing utility in the NICU

Current Pediatric Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 16-27

  van Wezel Meijler, Gerda ^a   de Vries, Linda S ^b  

^a ISALA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain; Cranial ultrasound; Imaging; Neonate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL INFECTION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; GERMINAL MATRIX INTRAVENTRICULAR HEMORRHAGE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCINEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEUROIMAGING; PERIVENTRICULAR LEUKOMALACIA; POSTERIOR FONTANEL; POSTERIOR FOSSA; POSTHEMORRHAGIC VENTRICULAR DILATATION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; WHITE MATTER INJURY; ANTERIOR FONTANEL; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFECTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN STEM; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FONTANEL; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMAGE QUALITY; MASTOID; MYELINATION; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEPSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; INFANT; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84924285001     PISSN: 15733963     EISSN: 18756336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157339631001140408120106     Document Type: Article

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