J C Becher, J E Bell, J W Keeling, et al. The Scottish perinatal neuropathology study: clinicopathological correlation in early neonatal deaths (Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2003;89:F399–407). In Table 4, the second row, last column heading was published incorrectly and should read: NoBA group (n = 13; 22%). We apologise for this error.