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Do we need a brain MRI once or twice in infants treated with hypothermia?

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Fig. 1: Evolution of PWML over time.

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  1. Department of Neonatology, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital and Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht and Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

    Linda S. de Vries & Floris Groenendaal

  2. Department of Neonatology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

    Linda S. de Vries

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de Vries, L.S., Groenendaal, F. Do we need a brain MRI once or twice in infants treated with hypothermia?. Pediatr Res 94, 870–872 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-023-02634-x

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