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Frances Cowan

Professor of Global Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Verified email at lstmed.ac.uk
Cited by 11790

How to improve the validity of sexual behaviour reporting: systematic review of questionnaire delivery modes in developing countries

LF Langhaug, L Sherr… - Tropical medicine & …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To systematically review comparative research from developing countries on the
effects of questionnaire delivery mode. Methods We searched Medline, EMbase and …

Effectiveness of interventions for the prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in female sex workers in resource poor setting: a systematic review

…, V Patel, D Mabey, F Cowan - Tropical Medicine & …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To systematically review the evidence for effectiveness of HIV and sexually
transmitted infection (STI) prevention interventions in female sex workers in resource poor …

Magnetic resonance imaging of preterm brain injury

SJ Counsell, MA Rutherford, FM Cowan… - Archives of Disease in …, 2003 - fn.bmj.com
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has proved to be a valuable tool for monitoring
development and pathology in the preterm brain. This imaging modality is useful for …

Mutations in the gene encoding the 3′-5′ DNA exonuclease TREX1 cause Aicardi-Goutières syndrome at the AGS1 locus

YJ Crow, BE Hayward, R Parmar, P Robins, A Leitch… - Nature …, 2006 - nature.com
Aicardi-Goutières syndrome (AGS) presents as a severe neurological brain disease and is a
genetic mimic of the sequelae of transplacentally acquired viral infection,. Evidence exists …

Origin and timing of brain lesions in term infants with neonatal encephalopathy

F Cowan, M Rutherford, F Groenendaal, P Eken… - The Lancet, 2003 - thelancet.com
Background The role of intrapartum asphyxia in neonatal encephalopathy and seizures in
term infants is not clear, and antenatal factors are being implicated in the causal pathway for …

Natural history of brain lesions in extremely preterm infants studied with serial magnetic resonance imaging from birth and neurodevelopmental assessment

LE Dyet, N Kennea, SJ Counsell, EF Maalouf… - …, 2006 - publications.aap.org
OBJECTIVES. The aim was to survey the range of cerebral injury and abnormalities of
cerebral development in infants born between 23 and 30 weeks' gestation using serial MRI …

Patterns of cerebral injury and neurodevelopmental outcomes after symptomatic neonatal hypoglycemia

CM Burns, MA Rutherford, JP Boardman… - Pediatrics, 2008 - publications.aap.org
BACKGROUND. Symptomatic neonatal hypoglycemia may be associated with later
neurodevelopmental impairment. Brain injury patterns identified on early MRI scans and …

Assessment of neonatal encephalopathy by amplitude-integrated electroencephalography

N al Naqeeb, AD Edwards, FM Cowan… - Pediatrics, 1999 - publications.aap.org
Objective. To define normal and abnormal patterns, test interobserver variability, and the
prognostic accuracy of amplitude-integrated electroencephalography (aEEG) soon after the …

[PDF][PDF] Clinical and molecular phenotype of Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome

G Rice, T Patrick, R Parmar, CF Taylor, A Aeby… - The American Journal of …, 2007 - cell.com
Aicardi-Goutières syndrome (AGS) is a genetic encephalopathy whose clinical features
mimic those of acquired in utero viral infection. AGS exhibits locus heterogeneity, with …

Comparison of findings on cranial ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging in preterm infants

…, SJ Counsell, MA Rutherford, F Cowan… - …, 2001 - publications.aap.org
Objective. To compare findings on hard copies of cranial ultrasound (US) and magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) obtained between birth and term in a group of preterm infants …