Neonatal brain lesions in relation to outcome
| Ultrasound findings | No | Cerebal palsy | Minor neurological and/pr perceptual-motor problems | Normal on all three assessments | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Touwen | Movement ABC | VMI | |||||||||||
| Severe | Moderate | A | B | A | B | A | B | ||||||
| Normal | 64 | - | - | 8 | 6 | 5 | 17 | - | 4 | 36 | |||
| Grade I haemorrhage | 10 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | - | 4 | |||
| Grade IIa haemorrhage | 8 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 6 | |||
| Flares | 45 | - | 4 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 11 | |||
| Grade I haemorrhage+flares | 10 | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | 4 | 1 | - | 3 | |||
| Grade IIa haemorrhage+flares | 8 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Ventricular dilatation at birth | 7 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | |||
| Cyst | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Grade IIb haemorrhage | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | |||
| Grade IIb haemorrhage+others | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Grade III haemorrhage | 6 | - | 4 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |||
| Infarct | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |||
| Infarct and | |||||||||||||
| Grade IIa haemorrhage+flares | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | |||
| Grade IIb haemorrhage | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | |||
| Grade IIb haemorrhage+flares+cyst | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | |||
| PVL | 7 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| PVL and | |||||||||||||
| Grade IIa haemorrhage | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Grade IIb haemorrhage | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Grade IIb haemorrhage+infarct+cyst | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| SCL | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| PVL+SCL | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Total | 182 | 15 | 11 | 26 | 16 | 30 | 39 | 15 | 12 | 55 | |||
Numbers in cells are not mutually exclusive. PVL = periventricular leucomalacia; SCL = subcortical leucomalacia.