title: Symmetrical bithalamic hyperdensities in asphyxiated full-term newborns: an early indicator of status marmoratus.
abstract: Three severely asphyxiated full-term newborns showed tomographic findings of bilateral symmetrical hyperdensities restricted to the thalamic region. All these patients had a strikingly similar poor neurological outcome characterized by dystonia, severe mental retardation and acquired microcephaly. We presume that these bithalamic hyperdensities could be an early predictor of the later status marmoratus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics and Child Neuropsychiatry, Verona University Medical School, Italy.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Colamaria
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Curatolo
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cusmai
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dalla Bernardina
mesh_terms: D001238:Asphyxia Neonatorum / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001284:Atrophy; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D013788:Thalamus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed