Idiopathic chronic subdural hematoma, MCA infarct and cortical atrophy with status epilepticus in infants.
Spontaneous chronic subdural hematomas in infants are extremely rare. A very limited number of cases are known and reported in literature. The clinical presentation can be myriad varying from asymptomatic cases to gross neurological deficits. We report the cases of 2 infants who presented to us with repeated episodes of generalized tonic clonic seizures since birth. No etiology could be established for either of them. Subsequent imaging revealed chronic subdural hematoma, MCA infarct and cortical atrophy in both the cases. Both the cases improved following evacuation of the chronic subdural hematoma. One of the infants had secondary craniosynostosis for which additional coronal suturectomy had to be done. The management of such cases and a brief review of literature are discussed.
Kumar
Raj
R
Department of Neurosurgery, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. rajkumar@sgpgi.ac.in
Singhal
Namit
N
Mahapatra
A K
AK
D001284:Atrophy / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D020200:Hematoma, Subdural, Chronic / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D020244:Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D054220:Malformations of Cortical Development / Q000150:complications*; D012640:Seizures / Q000209:etiology