Neonatal intracranial hemorrhage and complicating hydrocephalus.

Real-time ultrasound studies of the head were performed on 96 infants weighing 1500 g or less. This population represented all such infants admitted within the first 72 hours of life to a neonatal intensive care unit over a 9-month period. Intracranial subependymal/intraventricular hemorrhage occurred in 22 (23%) of the infants.

Neurosonographic identification of ventricular asymmetry in premature infants.

Routine head ultrasound scans have been performed on 185 consecutive infants weighing under 1500 g at birth. In 40 of these infants a significant difference in the size of the lateral ventricles was observed on one or more occasions. In 38 of these infants the left ventricle was larger than the right.

Lung nodules after whole lung radiation.

It is essential to recognize radiation pneumonitis after whole lung irradiation, or nodular changes in response to chemotherapy, so that such conditions are not mistaken for tumor metastases, causing grave error in patient management and the possibility of further lung damage.