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Original articles

• Nebulisation of surfactants in an animal model of neonatal respiratory distress (1 January, 1998)

  Tai Fai Fok, Mazen Al-Essa, Myrna Dolovich, Farid Rasid, Haresh Kirpalani
• Randomised trial of erythromycin on the development of chronic lung disease in preterm infants (1 January, 1998)

  A J Lyon, J McColm, L Middlemist, S Fergusson, N McIntosh, P W Ross
• Randomised controlled trial of respiratory system compliance measurements in mechanically ventilated neonates (1 January, 1998)

  Ben J Stenson, Rebecca M Glover, Rosalie A Wilkie, Ian A Laing, William O Tarnow-Mordi
• Pulmonary artery pressure: early predictor of chronic lung disease in preterm infants (1 January, 1998)

  N V Subhedar, A H Hamdan, S W Ryan, N J Shaw
• Influence of ethnic origin on respiratory distress syndrome in very premature infants (1 January, 1998)

  Valia Kavvadia, Anne Greenough, Gabriel Dimitriou, Richard Hooper
• Deformation of the palate in preterm infants (1 January, 1998)

  Annie M Procter, Diane Lether, Richard G Oliver, Patrick HT Cartlidge
• Cerebral blood flow increases over the first three days of life in extremely preterm neonates (1 January, 1998)

  Judith H Meek, Lidia Tyszczuk, Clare E Elwell, J S Wyatt
• Does positive pressure ventilation increase arginine vasopressin in preterm neonates? (1 January, 1998)

  Heather J Lambert, Peter H Baylis, Judith A McAulay, Malcolm G Coulthard
• Central–peripheral temperature difference, blood pressure, and arginine vasopressin in preterm neonates undergoing volume expansion (1 January, 1998)

  Heather J Lambert, Peter H Baylis, Malcolm G Coulthard
• Impaired phagocytosis and opsonisation towards group B streptococci in preterm neonates (1 January, 1998)

  Jan Källman, Jens Schollin, Claes Schalèn, Ann Erlandsson, Erik Kihlström
• Antenatal onset of haemorrhagic and/or ischaemic lesions in preterm infants: prevalence and associated obstetric variables (1 January, 1998)

  L S de Vries, P Eken, F Groenendaal, K J Rademaker, B Hoogervorst, H W Bruinse
• Antibodies to varicella zoster virus in the cerebrospinal fluid of neonates with seizures (1 January, 1998)

  Kirsi Mustonen, Pia Mustakangas, Marika Smeds, Laura Mannonen, Lasse Uotila, Antti Vaheri, Marjaleena Koskiniemi
• Consequences for fetus and neonate of maternal red cell allo-immunisation (1 January, 1998)

  Helen Howard, Vanessa Martlew, Iain McFadyen, Cyril Clarke, Jennifer Duguid, Imelda Bromilow, John Eggington
• In vitro effect of dexamethasone phosphate on hematopoietic progenitor cells in preterm infants (1 January, 1998)

  Paola Papoff, Robert D Christensen, Jenny Harcum, Yan Li