Brain MRI in infants after maternal Zika virus infection during pregnancy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 377, Issue 14, 2017, Pages 1399-1400

  Mejdoubi, Mehdi ^a   Monthieux, Alice ^a   Cassan, Tiphaine ^a   Lombard, Catherine ^a   Flechelles, Olivier ^a   Adenet, Clara ^a  

^a University Hospital of Martinique   (Martinique)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC KIT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARTINIQUE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROCEPHALY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ZIKA FEVER; ABNORMALITIES; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMBRYOLOGY; FETUS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL INJURY; TRANSMISSION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

BRAIN; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL INJURIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 85030480290     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1612813     Document Type: Letter

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