201. Periventricular leukomalacia related to neonatal anoxia: recognition by computed tomography
- Author
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Richard D. Landes, Giovanni Di Chiro, John M. Pellock, and Tetsuo Arimitsu
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Male ,congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Brain Diseases ,Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn ,Periventricular leukomalacia ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Neonatal anoxia ,Infant, Newborn ,Computed tomography ,medicine.disease ,Neonatal hypoxia ,White matter changes ,nervous system diseases ,Cerebral Ventricles ,medicine ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,cardiovascular diseases ,business ,Cerebral Ventriculography ,Hypoxia ,Tomography, X-Ray Computed - Abstract
Periventricular areas of decreased attenuation coefficient were demonstrated by computed tomography (CT) in two infants with neurological involvement after episodes of neonatal hypoxia. This CT finding is related to anoxic periventricular leukomalacia, which is well documented in the literature. Follow-up CT scans in our two patients demonstrated reversibility of the white matter changes.
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- 1978