Serial cranial ultrasonography or early MRI for detecting preterm brain injury?

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2015, Pages F293-F300

  Plaisier, Annemarie ^a,b   Raets, Marlou M A ^a   Ecury Goossen, Ginette M ^a   Govaert, Paul ^a,c   Feijen Roon, Monique ^a,b   Reiss, Irwin K M ^a   Smit, Liesbeth S ^a,b   Lequin, Maarten H ^b   Dudink, Jeroen ^a,b  

^a SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Paola Childrens Hospital   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METHODS; NETHERLANDS; PATHOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84935088851     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2014-306129     Document Type: Article

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