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1989 - 1990 MRI was performed in 24 infants with newly diagnosed hemiplegic cerebral palsy (obvious postnatal causes excluded) using a 2.35 T MR system. There were 17 boys and 7 girls, 18 patients were born at term, 6 preterm. The hemisyndrome was right sided in 16, left sided in 8 children. Development was assessed with Griffith or Snijders-Omen test. MRI findings were: normal (n=4, 17%), unilateral lesions (n=13, 54%) ranging in size from small (single or multiple) cysts to almost hemihydranencephaly, and bilateral lesions (n=7, 29%) of various size and location. All lesions (except two) were found in the territory supplied by the middle cerebral artery or in watershed areas. In general it was not possible from MRI findings or clinical data to date the lesions more precisely to the the pre- or perinatal period. We found no consistent correlation between the topography or size of the MRI lesions and the severity of the hemiplegia and/or the degree of mental development.
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Good, M., Steinlin, M., Martin, E. et al. 43 MRI IN HEMIPLEGIC CEREBRAL PALSY: CORRELATION WITH THE SEVERITY OF MOTOR AND DEVELOPMENTAL ABNORMALITY. Pediatr Res 30, 635 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-199112000-00073
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-199112000-00073