MRI findings at school age in a cohort of 221 preterm infants
| CSF, cerebral spinal fluid. It should be noted that 83 children had a completely normal MRI; the other numbers do not add up to 138 due to multiple findings in some of the children. | |
| Normal, n (%) | 83 (37.6%) |
| Gliosis, n (%) | 64 (29.0%) |
| Mild gliosis: 38 (59.4%) | |
| Extensive gliosis: 26 (40.6%) | |
| Ventricular dilatation, n (%) | 81 (37.7%) |
| Global: 65 (80.2%) | |
| Focal: 16 (19.8%) | |
| Abnormally shaped corpus callosum, n (%) | 56 (25.3%) |
| Generalised thinning: 19 (33.9%) | |
| Focal thinning: 37 (66.1%) | |
| Abnormal retrochiasmatic | 8 (3.6%) |
| region of the visual | |
| system, n (%) | |
| Thalamus abnormalities, n (%) | 6 (2.7%) |
| Cerebellar atrophy, n (%) | 3 (1.4%) |
| Cortical atrophy, n (%) | 1 (0.5%) |
| Other, n (%) | 9 (4.1%) |
| Pineal cyst: 2 | |
| Arachnoidal cyst: 3 | |
| Small pituitary gland: 1 | |
| Extra cerebral CSF cyst: 1 | |
| Mesencephalon lesion: 1 | |