The authors report a girl with left-sided hemiparesis and unilateral hydranencephaly of the opposite side. Her psychomotor development has been far better than expected--she is only mildly delayed. Hemihydranencephaly is a rare anomaly: only five other cases are reported in the literature, three of whom were also mildly delayed.
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September 1985
Multiple cystic brain lesions in neonates have been described as a result of a variety of causes. All events described thus far in association with multicystic encephalomalacia (MCE) seem to point to hypoxic-ischaemic injury as the common factor for this particular form of central nervous system damage. We describe a neonate in whom repeated, prolonged episodes of intrauterine tachycardia had been documented.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 7-year-old boy developed fatal aplastic anaemia, 2 weeks after the first signs of infectious mononucleosis. Although some drugs were administered, infection with the Epstein-Barr virus, leading to infectious mononucleosis, is assumed to be the cause of this aplastic anaemia. Some mechanisms possibly leading to the aplasia are discussed.
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