TY - JOUR
T1 - Sonographic finding of the bright thalamus
AU - Shen, E. Y.
AU - Huang, C. C.
AU - Chyou, S. C.
AU - Hung, H. Y.
AU - Hsu, C. H.
AU - Huang, F. Y.
PY - 1986
Y1 - 1986
N2 - Six of 83 asphyxiated neonates showed a diffuse increase of echodensity in bilateral thalami with or without other lesions in the basal ganglia on sonographic examination. The thalamic image still had a fairly high echogenecity compared with the surrounding brain parenchyma on follow up examination and was hence termed the bright thalamus. These six patients had a poor neurological outcome, including psychomotor retardation, spastic diplegia or quadriplegia, microcephaly, failure to thrive, seizures, and one death. The bright thalamus is not an occasional or an isolated sonographic finding of hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy, but it may serve as a landmark of severe hypoxic brain damage with adverse outcome.
AB - Six of 83 asphyxiated neonates showed a diffuse increase of echodensity in bilateral thalami with or without other lesions in the basal ganglia on sonographic examination. The thalamic image still had a fairly high echogenecity compared with the surrounding brain parenchyma on follow up examination and was hence termed the bright thalamus. These six patients had a poor neurological outcome, including psychomotor retardation, spastic diplegia or quadriplegia, microcephaly, failure to thrive, seizures, and one death. The bright thalamus is not an occasional or an isolated sonographic finding of hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy, but it may serve as a landmark of severe hypoxic brain damage with adverse outcome.
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U2 - 10.1136/adc.61.11.1096
DO - 10.1136/adc.61.11.1096
M3 - Article
C2 - 3539029
AN - SCOPUS:0022444770
SN - 0003-9888
VL - 61
SP - 1096
EP - 1099
JO - Archives of Disease in Childhood
JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood
IS - 11
ER -