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Table 4 Frequency of mild conspicuities on cerebral ultrasound distributed among different gestational ages and groups

From: Analyses of pathological cranial ultrasound findings in neonates that fall outside recent indication guidelines: results of a population-based birth cohort: survey of neonates in Pommerania (SNiP-study)

Gestational age group

type of conspicuity

Group I

Group II

Total cases

30–34 weeks GA

3

unilateral singular cyst

2

 

ventricular enlargement/asymmetry*

1

 

> 34 weeks GA

27

100

ventricular enlargement/asymmetry*

12

55

unilateral singular parenchymal cyst

9

38

IVH I°

1

4

increased echogenicity

5

3

caudothalamic groove

 

1

thalamic

 

1

paraventricular

4

1

frontotemporal

1

 
  1. Data are the number of infants in each group. Weeks GA: weeks of gestational age; IVH: intraventricular hemorrhage, *measurement: > 0.5 cm vertical distance difference between the sulcus thalamicus and the corpus callosum in two sagittal views at the level of the plexus choroideus in the lateral ventricles