title: Early diagnosis of perinatal cerebral lesions in apparently normal full-term newborns by ultrasound of the brain.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: University of Ulm, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Heibel
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Heber
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bechinger
authors.forename: H H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Kornhuber
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000002:abnormalities*; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004453:Echoencephalography; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn