Value of Cerebral Microhemorrhages Detected with Susceptibility-weighted MR Imaging for Prediction of Long-term Outcome in Children with Nonaccidental Trauma

Abstract

Presence of intraparenchymal brain MH in children with NAT, as detected on SW images, correlates with significantly poor long-term neurologic outcome, improves outcome prediction compared with the predictions made by using other tested clinical and imaging findings, and is most predictive when combined with presence of ischemic injury.