title: [Vertex spikes in newborn infants in acute cerebral anoxia. Prognostic value].
abstract: The authors report 10 cases of newborns with neonatal hypoxic encephalopathy and presence of spikes in the vertex area on EEG. Evolution was characterized by the onset of a spastic paraparesy with frontal atrophy on CT scan examination and disappearance of the spikes after 2 months of age. This graphic pattern is usually absent in neonatal anoxic encephalopathy. Vertex spikes thus appear to have a prognostic value in neonates with brain anoxia.
authors.affiliation: Service de Pédiatrie I, Hôpital d'Enfants, Dijon.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bourgeois
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Septien
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sandre
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Petion
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Nivelon
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Gouyon
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Giroud
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dumas
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002534:Hypoxia, Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007235:Infant, Premature, Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Les pointes au vertex chez le nouveau-né en anoxie cérébrale aiguë. Intérêt pronostique.