Infantile panthalamic infarct with a striking sonographic finding: the "bright thalamus".
A "bright thalamus" is not uncommonly observed in cranial sonograms of asphyxiated neonates, but not those of older infants. Three infants, aged 9-14 months, developed acute onset of seizures and disturbance of consciousness after a minor prodromal illness. Bilateral thalamic infarcts were demonstrated by ultrasonography and CT. One patient expired from causes not directly related to the infarcts; the other two survived with severe neurological sequelae.
Wang
H S
HS
Department of Paediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Huang
S C
SC
D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004453:Echoencephalography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D013786:Thalamic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013788:Thalamus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed