Posterior Fossa Hemorrhage in a Term Neonate with Hemophilia A.

J Med Ultrasound

Department of Pediatric Neurology, MacKay Children's Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.

Published: March 2018

Posterior fossa hemorrhage is rare in term baby and difficult to assess. The clinical signs are nonspecific and usually delay the diagnosis. We present a 5-day-old male neonate of posterior fossa hemorrhage with the initial presentations of fever and seizure and early deduced by cranial ultrasonography findings as hyperechoic, asymmetric, ill-defined density and complicated with hydrocephalus. Magnetic resonance imaging of the head verified the diagnosis. Hemophilia A was confirmed thereafter by serology.

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