Pediatric Neurology
Volume 27, Issue 2 , Pages 93-101 , August 2002

Prognostic value of neonatal discontinuous EEG

  • Caroline C Menache, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology; Children’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School; Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    • ,
  • Blaise F.D Bourgeois, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology; Children’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School; Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCommunications should be addressed to: Dr. Bourgeois; Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology; Department of Neurology; Children’s Hospital; Hunnewell 2; 300 Longwood Avenue; Boston, MA 02115, USA.
    • ,
  • Joseph J Volpe, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology; Children’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School; Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Received 21 March 2001 ,Accepted 4 February 2002.

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