title: Occipital horn asymmetry in children.
abstract: In 75 young neurological patients ranging in age from 5 months to nearly 18 years, the left occipital horn was longer than the right in 29 instances whereas the right was longer than the left in only 13 cases (p < 0.025). Elongations of the right occipital horn as well as symmetrical horns were associated with cerebral damage incurred prior to the end of the first year of life (p = 0.06).
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D014695:Cerebral Ventriculography; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000254:growth & development*