Corticospinal Tract Injury Precedes Thalamic Volume Reduction in Preterm Infants with Cystic Periventricular Leukomalacia

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 260-268.e3

  Kersbergen, Karina J ^a   De Vries, Linda S ^a   Groenendaal, Floris ^a   Van Haastert, Ingrid C ^a   Chew, Andrew T M ^b   Makropoulos, Antonios ^b,c   Dawson, Sarah L ^b   Cowan, Frances M ^c   Benders, Manon J N L ^a,b   Counsell, Serena J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSPINAL TRACT INJURY; CYSTIC PERIVENTRICULAR LEUKOMALACIA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROSS MOTOR FUNCTION CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKOMALACIA; MALE; NERVE INJURY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAMETERS CONCERNING THE FETUS, NEWBORN AND PREGNANCY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERM EQUIVALENT AGE; THALAMUS; TRACTOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM; ANISOTROPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LEUKOMALACIA, PERIVENTRICULAR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THALAMUS;

EID: 84937729267     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: 10976833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2015.05.013     Document Type: Article

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