Journal article
Effect of malaria in pregnancy on foetal cortical brain development: a longitudinal observational study.
- Abstract:
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BACKGROUND: Malaria in pregnancy has a negative impact on foetal growth, but it is not known whether this also affects the foetal nervous system. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of malaria on foetal cortex development by three-dimensional ultrasound. METHODS: Brain images were acquired using a portable ultrasound machine and a 3D ultrasound transducer. All recordings were analysed, blinded to clinical data, using the 4D view software package. The foetal supra-tentorial brain ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Wellcome Trust
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Malar J Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 222
- Publication date:
- 2012-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1475-2875
- ISSN:
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1475-2875
- Source identifiers:
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341063
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:341063
- UUID:
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uuid:89d3c340-5902-4d58-84a4-2b70580a5a75
- Local pid:
- pubs:341063
- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-16
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- Copyright holder:
- Rijken et al
- Copyright date:
- 2012
- Notes:
- © 2012 Rijken et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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