Neonatal cranial US findings in a cohort of 221 preterm infants
| GL, germinal layer; IVH, intraventricular haemorrhage; PHVD, post haemorrhagic ventricular dilatation; PVL, periventricular leukomalacia. It should be noted that 92 infants had a completely normal US; the other numbers do not add up to 129 due to multiple findings in some of the children. | |
| Normal, n (%) | 92 (41.6%) |
| IVH, n (%) | 79 (35.7%) |
| IVH grade I: 11 (13.9%) | |
| IVH grade II: 48 (60.8%) | |
| IVH grade III: 9 (11.4%) | |
| IVH grade IV: 11 (13.9%) | |
| PHVD: 18 | |
| PVL, n (%) | 41 (18.6%) |
| PVL grade I: 32 (78.0%) | |
| PVL grade II: 4 (9.8%) | |
| PVL grade III: 5 (12.2%) | |
| Other, n (%) | 26 (11.8%) |
| Convexity haemorrhage: 2 | |
| Infarction: 2 | |
| Thalamus lesion: 2 | |
| Calcifications: 3 | |
| Pseudocysts: 3 | |
| Ventricular dilatation: 9 | |
| GL cyst: 1 | |
| GL necrosis: 1 | |
| Plexus cyst: 3 | |