Maturation of the limbic system revealed by MR FLAIR imaging.

Background: Cortical signal intensity (SI) of the limbic system in adults is known to be higher than in neocortical structures, but time-related changes in SI during childhood have not been described.

Objective: To detect maturation-related SI changes within the limbic system using a fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) MR sequence.

Materials And Methods: Twenty children (10 boys, 10 girls; age 3.

Three-dimensional volume measurement of the lateral ventricles in preterm and term infants: evaluation of a standardised computer-assisted method in vivo.

Background: Assessment of ventricular size still represents a challenge for two-dimensional cranial sonography.

Objective: Three-dimensional (3D) volume acquisition and volume quantification are easily accomplished by an automatic scanning system without additional examination time. The development of a computer-assisted ultrasonic device will offer new perspectives for the quantification of ventricular volume.

Surfactant therapy in infants and children: three years experience in a pediatric intensive care unit.

Despite the established success of surfactant application in neonates, the use of surfactant in older children is still a matter of discussion. We hypothesized that surfactant application in children with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) secondary to a pulmonary or systemic disease or after cardiac surgery improves pulmonary function. We also asked whether repeated treatment could further improve pulmonary function.

Posterior pituitary ectopy in children with idiopathic growth hormone deficiency.

Aims: To evaluate the underlying pathogenesis in children with pituitary hormone deficiency by means of high resolution MRI of the brain.

Patients/methods: Thirty-seven children with short stature and isolated GH deficiency (IGHD, n = 17) or multiple pituitary hormone deficiency (MPHD, n = 20) were subjected to an MRI of the brain at the age of 1.0-17.

[Malformations of the urinary tract in neonates. Current status of imaging procedures].

Unlabelled: Malformations of the urinary tract are one of the most common types of anomalies in the neonatal period. Approximately 15-20% of all prenatally detected malformations require acute postnatal imaging. Sonography is the primary imaging modality in the evaluation of nephro-urologic problems in infancy.