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BMC Pediatrics BioMed Central Research article Open Access Survival and major neurodevelopmental impairment in extremely low gestational age newborns born 1990–2000: a retrospective cohort study 1 1 1 Lisa K Washburn* , Robert G Dillard , Donald J Goldstein , 1 2 1 Kurt L Klinepeter , Raye-Ann deRegnier and Thomas Michael OShea Address: 1Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA and 2Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA Email: Lisa K Washburn* - liwashbu@; Robert G Dillard - rdillard@; Donald J Goldstein - dgoldst@; Kurt L Klinepeter - kklinepe@; Raye-Ann deRegnier - r-deregnier@; Thomas Michael OShea - moshea@ * Corresponding author Published: 3 May 2007 Received: 9 October 2006 Accepted: 3 May 2007 BMC Pediatrics 2007, 7:20 doi:10.1186/1471-2431-7-20 This article is available from: /1471-2431/7/20 © 2007 Washburn et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: It is important to determine if rates of survival and major neurodevelopmental impairment in extremely