@article{ref1,
title="Auditory brainstem responses in infants and children with anoxic brain damage due to near-suffocation or near-drowning",
journal="International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology",
year="1996",
author="Kaga, K. and Ichimura, K. and Kitazumi, E. and Kodama, K. and Tamai, F.",
volume="36",
number="3",
pages="231-239",
abstract="We studied auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) of sixteen infants and children with brain damage after anoxic accidents due to near-suffocation or near-drowning. The patients manifested cerebral palsy, mental retardation and/or epilepsy and showed poor responses in the behavioral audiometry. Auditory brainstem responses were abnormal in five of the patients in the near-drowning group (waves I, II and III only were present in three patients and the amplitudes of waves IV and V were low in two patients) but normal in most of the patients in the near-suffocation group. This difference in the ABRs between the two groups suggest that in infants and children anoxic brain damage due to near-drowning might involve not only the cerebral cortex and subcortical white matter but also the upper brainstem and midbrain.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0165-5876",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}