[Vertex spikes in newborn infants in acute cerebral anoxia. Prognostic value].
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.
Bourgeois
M
M
Service de Pédiatrie I, Hôpital d'Enfants, Dijon.
Septien
L
L
Sandre
D
D
Petion
A M
AM
Nivelon
J L
JL
Gouyon
J B
JB
Giroud
M
M
Dumas
R
R
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
Les pointes au vertex chez le nouveau-né en anoxie cérébrale aiguë. Intérêt pronostique.