All issues > Volume 31(12); 1988

Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1988;31(12):1573-1579. Published online December 31, 1988.

Neurosonographic Follow-up Study in Low Weight Infants.

Yil Sub Lee¹, Chul Lee¹, Ran Namgung¹, Dong Gwan Han¹, Ki Keun Oh²

¹Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
²Department of Radilogy, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Received: May 13, 1988;  Accepted: July 25, 1988.

Abstract

Serial neurosonographic examinations were performed in 34 low birth weight infants who were admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit of Yong-Dong Severance Hospital. Among them, 14 (41 %)were found to have periventicular-intraventricular hemorrhage. The initial hemorrhage occured in the first three days of life among 71% infants. After initial hemorrhage, hemorrhage was decreased in size and thereafter absorbed. Fourteen (44%) infants demonsrated cysts in subependymal lining of lateral ventricle. The cysts found from 31 days to 60 days of life in 67% infants at follow-up neurosonographic studies. Seven (20%) infants have cyst without evidence of preiventricular- intraventricular hemorrhage at initial studies.

Keywords :Neurosonographic follow-up, subependymal cyst, low birth weight infants