Cerebral palsy in very low birthweight infants.
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Cerebral palsy in very low birthweight infants.
Eighty one very low birthweight survivors with cerebral palsy were matched with controls by sex, gestational age, and place of birth. Using discriminant analysis, the perinatal profiles for infants with cerebral palsy and their controls were shown to differ significantly. When infants with various types of cerebral palsy were analysed with their controls the discriminating variables differed. D...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.65.2.201