Pediatric Neurology Briefs (Jul 2000)

Prenatal Anticonvulsants and Small Infant Head Size

  • J Gordon Millichap

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15844/pedneurbriefs-14-7-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 7
pp. 51 – 51

Abstract

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Occipitofrontal head circumference (OFC) of 172 neonates exposed prenatally to phenobarbital and phenytoin was compared to 168 control neonates, and the findings were studied in relation to a follow-up assessment of cognitive functioning in adulthood, at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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