Lenticulostriate vasculopathy in neonates: Is it a marker of cerebral insult? Critical review of the literature

Early Human Development

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 423-426

  Sisman, Julide ^a   Rosenfeld, Charles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN REGION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LENTICULOSTRIATE VASCULOPATHY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PREMATURITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR LESION; BASAL GANGLIA CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN INJURY; COMPLICATION; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

BASAL GANGLIA; BASAL GANGLIA CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; BIOMARKERS; BRAIN INJURIES; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN;

EID: 84930179330     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: 18726232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2015.04.004     Document Type: Article

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