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Cerebral palsy: causes, pathways, and the role of genetic variants.
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology - 1 Dec 2015
MacLennan Alastair H, Thompson Suzanna C, Gecz Jozef
Abstract excerpt
Cerebral palsy (CP) is heterogeneous with different clinical types, comorbidities, brain imaging patterns, causes, and now also heterogeneous underlying genetic variants. Few are solely due to severe hypoxia or ischemia at birth. This common myth has held back research in causation. The cost of litigation has devastating effects on maternity services with unnecessarily high cesarean delivery rates and subsequent...
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