The etiology of lenticulostriate vasculopathy and the role of congenital infections

Early Human Development

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 427-430

  Cantey, Joseph B ^a   Sisman, Julide ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cytomegalovirus; Infection; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN INFARCTION; CHICKENPOX; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; CONGENITAL INFECTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DRUG USE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; LENTICULOSTRIATE VASCULOPATHY; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERINATAL INFECTION; PRENATAL SCREENING; ROTAVIRUS; RUBELLA; SYPHILIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRISOMY 13; TRISOMY 21; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; ULTRASOUND; VASCULAR DISEASE; BASAL GANGLIA CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPLICATION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; NEWBORN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

BASAL GANGLIA; BASAL GANGLIA CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84930183135     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: 18726232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2015.04.005     Document Type: Article

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