ArticleJournal of pediatric surgery2021
Head circumference in infants undergoing Foker process for long-gap esophageal atresia repair: Call for attention.
Article in Journal of pediatric surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Esophageal Atresia: From worry to wisdom-Global pediatrics · 2025Article
- Retrospective analysis of early neurodevelopmental outcomes after esophageal atresia repair at a single institution:Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Novel Mammillary Body Manual Segmentation: Application for Quantitative MRI Analysis of Critically Ill Infants.Clinical neuroimaging (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Infant Perioperative Risk Factors and Adverse Brain Findings Following Long-Gap Esophageal Atresia Repair.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- From the Ground Up: Esophageal Atresia Types, Disease Severity Stratification and Survival Rates at a Single Institution.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionWe extended our pilot study in infants following long-gap esophageal atresia (LGEA) repair to report head circumference, an easily obtainable indirect measure of brain size. Data are presented in the context of previously reported body weight and T2-weighted MRI measures of intracranial and brain volumes.
methodsClinical information and head circumference were obtained for term-born (n = 13) and premature (n = 13) infants following LGEA repair with Foker process, as well as healthy term-born controls (n = 20) <1-year corrected age who underwent non-sedated research MRI. General Linear Model univariate analysis with corrected age at scan as a covariate and Bonferroni adjusted p values assessed group differences.
resultsWe report no difference in head circumference between the three groups. Such findings paralleled trends in body weight and total intracranial volume but not in brain volume as previously reported for the same pilot cohort. DISCUSSION: Results suggest uncompromised somatic and head growth after repair of LGEA. In contrast, a novel finding of discrepancy between head circumference (novel data) and brain size (previously published data) in the same cohort suggests that head circumference might not be the best indirect measure of brain size in selected group of patients.
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