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White Matter Injury and Structural Anomalies in Infants with Prenatal Opioid Exposure

S.L. Merhar, N.A. Parikh, A. Braimah, B.B. Poindexter, J. Tkach and B. Kline-Fath
American Journal of Neuroradiology December 2019, 40 (12) 2161-2165; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A6282
S.L. Merhar
aFrom the Perinatal Institute, Division of Neonatology (S.L.M., N.A.P., B.B.P.)
dDepartment of Pediatrics (S.L.M., N.A.P., B.B.P.), University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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N.A. Parikh
aFrom the Perinatal Institute, Division of Neonatology (S.L.M., N.A.P., B.B.P.)
dDepartment of Pediatrics (S.L.M., N.A.P., B.B.P.), University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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bPediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium (A.B.)
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aFrom the Perinatal Institute, Division of Neonatology (S.L.M., N.A.P., B.B.P.)
dDepartment of Pediatrics (S.L.M., N.A.P., B.B.P.), University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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J. Tkach
cDepartment of Radiology (J.T., B.K.-F.), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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