Computed tomography in spastic cerebral palsy
| Autor: | K. Taudorf, H. Pedersen, J. C. Melchior |
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| Rok vydání: | 1982 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Neurology Hemiplegia Posterior cerebral artery Quadriplegia Cerebral palsy Atrophy Spastic cerebral palsy medicine.artery Spastic Medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Neuroradiology Paraplegia Epilepsy business.industry Cerebral Palsy Infant medicine.disease Prognosis Surgery Child Preschool Female Neurology (clinical) Radiology Abnormality Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Tomography X-Ray Computed |
| Zdroj: | Neuroradiology. 23(5) |
| ISSN: | 0028-3940 |
| Popis: | Eighty-three children with spastic cerebral palsy (CP) were examined with cranial CT. In 56 cases the CT findings were abnormal. The most frequent abnormality was atrophy, present in 44 patients. The frequency of pathologic CT increased with severity of the CP. Patients with CP of postnatal aetiology more often had abnormal CT than patients with other known causes. Pathologic CT findings were seen more often in patients with seizures than in patients without. Infarctions and hemiatrophy were much more frequent in patients with hemiplegia than in patients with other types of spastic CP. A special kind of central atrophy, called isolated atrophy around in the cella media, is described. This condition was seen in 20% of cases, most often in hemi- and paraplegic patients. Early infarctions in the border areas between the vascular territories of the internal carotid and the posterior cerebral artery may be the reason for this kind of atrophy. |
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