Investigation of Infant Brain with or without Hydrocephalous in Our Environment Using Anterior Transfontanelle Ultrasound Scan.

Aim: A prospective study aimed to suggest easy and simple reproducible ventricular site that will be basic measurement plane and normal dimension determined, correlated to sizes of infants for comparative evaluation of hydrocephalous infants and should be reproducible in follow-up.

Materials And Methods: A prospective study done in University of Benin Teaching Hospital Benin, Nigeria. This study used 50 consecutive infants with Ultrasound scan (US) diagnosis of hydrocephalus and a control group of 50 US normal from 1(st) January 2007 to 30(th) June 2008.

Ultrasonographic kidney sizes among children in Benin, Nigeria: correlation with age and BMI.

Purpose: To determine kidney sizes among Nigerian children using ultrasonography to provide local reference data that could be compared with renal growth charts when assessing kidneys of Nigerian children for growth or pathology.

Methods: The study design was cross-sectional and a convenience sampling technique was used to select a sample. Consent was obtained from participants and ethical approval was obtained from the local ethics committee.