Asymmetrical Myelination of the Posterior Limb of the Internal Capsule in Infants with Periventricular Haemorrhagic Infarction: An Early Predictor of Hemiplegia - Concepedia

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Asymmetrical Myelination of the Posterior Limb of the Internal Capsule in Infants with Periventricular Haemorrhagic Infarction: An Early Predictor of Hemiplegia

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1999

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Linda de Vries, Floris Groenendaal, I. van Haastert, P. Eken, Karin Rademaker, Linda C. Meiners

Neuropediatrics

Abstract

While a symmetrical signal intensity within the internal capsule on MRI, performed at 40 weeks PMA, in infants with an IVH and unilateral PI appears to be strongly related to a normal outcome, an asymmetrical PLIC is an early predictor of future hemiplegia.