Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Diparetic Cerebral Palsy(Comparison of CT and MRI Images in Pre-term and In-term Born Children)
Authors:
Z. Seidl 1,2; J. Süssová 1; J. Obenberger 1,2; M. Jinochová
Authors‘ workplace:
Neurologická klinika 1. LF UK a VFN, Praha, 1 přednostka prof. MUDr. S. Nevšímalová, DrSc. Radiodiagnostická klinika 1. LF UK a VFN, Praha, 2 přednosta doc. MUDr. J. Daneš, CSc.
Published in:
Čes-slov Pediat 2002; (11): 624-627.
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Overview
Of 22 children with hemiparetic cerebral palsy 19 were born pre-term, the other 3 after the 37th week ofgestation. All patients underwentMRI as an adjunct toCT, which was part of the previous follow up. In the pre-termborn children on cranial MRI paraventricular white matter lesions in T2 weighted and FLAIR images contrastedwith normal white matter of children born in term. CT did not demonstrate any change of white matter. MRimaging as a diagnostic tool in cerebral palsy seems to be a new source of information and an important markerof the degree of white matter brain damage. The results of MR examination support the hypothesis, that pre-termand in-term born patients with diparetic cerebral palsy form two different clinical entities.
Key words:
diparetic form of cerebral palsy, computerized tomography,magnetic resonance imaging, CT,MRI
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Neonatology Paediatrics General practitioner for children and adolescentsArticle was published in
Czech-Slovak Pediatrics
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