ANTECEDENTS OF CEREBRAL PALSY (CP) IN VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT (VLBW) INFANTS.▴ 2220
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Cerebral Palsy in Children of Very Low Birth Weight.
It has been known since Little's time that a high proportion of children with cerebral palsy are premature and that many are very small at birth. A study of the relation between the group of disorders included under the term cerebral palsy and very low birth weight was undertaken in the hope that it might contribute useful aetiological information. This report describes the results of a survey,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Research
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0031-3998,1530-0447
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-199604001-02245