Normal neurologic development and marked reconstitution of cerebral mantle after postnatal treatment of intrauterine hydrocephalus.
We treated an infant who had severe congenital hydrocephalus and a massively enlarged head at birth. Despite extreme attenuation of the cerebral mantle, placement of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt at 4 weeks of age was followed by essentially normal neurologic development after several months. In addition, there was a striking reconstitution of the cerebral mantle.
D001921:Brain / Q000254:growth & development; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D012886:Skull / Q000254:growth & development*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed