The evolution of ischemic cerebral infarction in infancy: a sonographic evaluation.
Cranial sonography provides a noninvasive, portable method for imaging the infant brain. This study describes the time-dependent, sonographic findings of infantile cerebral infarction, as well as computed tomographic (CT) scan and neuropathologic confirmation. Three hundred ninety-five infants under 18 months of age were sonogrammed over a period of 18 months. Three infants were diagnosed by cranial sonography and confirmed by CT scan and/or autopsy to have acute ischemic cerebral infarcts. The cases were followed with serial cranial sonograms for up to 18 months of age. The acute sonographic findings included a hyperechoic zone around the infarcted tissue. The subacute infarct had a checkerboard pattern, while the chronic infarcts were anechoic.
Fischer
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Department of Neurology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30192.
Anderson
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Shuman
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D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D002546:Ischemic Attack, Transient / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography