Early diagnosis of perinatal cerebral lesions in apparently normal full-term newborns by ultrasound of the brain.
The brains of 1000 consecutive, clinically normal, full-term neonate without signs of perinatal distress were examined by ultrasound 3 days postpartum. We found 35 cases of intracranial haemorrhage (periventricular, choroid plexus and intraventricular); 34 possible sequelae of bleeding (subependymal and choroid plexus pseudocysts; local dilatation of the lateral ventricles) and 21 morphological aberrations. Most of these 90 abnormalities were checked several times. Four children with intracranial haemorrhage developed symptoms (3 hemipareses, 1 infantile spasm) within a year of birth. No child without sonographic abnormalities has so far been recognized as developing a clinical deficit.
Heibel
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University of Ulm, Federal Republic of Germany.
Heber
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Bechinger
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Kornhuber
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D001921:Brain / Q000002:abnormalities*; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004453:Echoencephalography; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn