Magnetic resonance imaging in neonates with total asphyxia.

Magnetic resonance (MR) findings in cases of total asphyxia, whose lesions are mainly in the brainstem and deep nuclei, have not been clarified. In this study, we investigated MR images in neonates with total asphyxia. MR images of six infants (three males and three females; gestational age, 35-39 weeks; birth weights, 1880-3572 g) with total asphyxia were examined.

Martsolf syndrome in Japanese siblings.

We describe a Japanese brother and sister with Martsolf syndrome. They had short stature, severe mental retardation, cataract, hypogonadism, craniofacial dysmorphism, and bone and joint symptoms including scoliosis, lax finger joints, and talipes valgus. Previously undescribed findings included proximal femoral epiphyseal dysplasia reminiscent of Legg-Calve-Perthes disease in both patients, and Klippel-Feil malformation and osteopathia striata in one patient.

A pediatric case of critical illness polyneuropathy: clinical and pathological findings.

Critical illness polyneuropathy (CIP) is a sensorimotor polyneuropathy recognized in adult intensive care patients with sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction and only a few cases have been reported in children. Here we report a 13-year-old Japanese boy with CIP that developed during the course of encephalopathy. Two months after the onset of encephalopathy, he developed tetraplegia although consciousness had already recovered.

[Epilepsy in patients with cerebral palsy--analysis of frequency and clinical prognosis].

This study was designed to investigate the incidence and prognosis of epilepsy in 109 patients with cerebral palsy and to attempt to correlate these clinical data with the type of palsy. The incidence of epilepsy, the onset of age and the type of first seizure were associated with the regions affected by palsy. A good association exists between tetraplegia and age-dependent epileptic encephalopathy.

[A case of left thalamic infarction with aphasia and dysgraphia in Kanji].

We reported an 11-year-old girl with left thalamic infarction causing aphasia and dysgraphia. The lesion corresponded to the perfusion area of the tuberothalamic and paramedian arteries. Confrontation naming and word finding were impaired, but phonological cuing was very helpful despite the absence of amnesia.