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Table 2 Brain imaging findings

From: Hemiplegic (unilateral) cerebral palsy in northern Stockholm: clinical assessment, brain imaging, EEG, epilepsy and aetiologic background factors

Child No# Gender

MRT/CT

Clinical side

Gestation

< 34 weeks

Gestation

> = 34 weeks

Imaging pattern

Miscellaneous

Localisation

Extent and details of brain lesion

Malformation

White matter injury

Grey matter injury

Focal vascular insult

1.m

MRT

Right

 

+

 

+

+

 

Affection of left pyramid tract, basal ganglia, cerebellum

Left

Volume loss in white matter and cortex

2.m

MRT

Left

 

+

+

    

Right

Polymicrogyri whole hemisphere

3.m

MRT

Left

+

  

+

   

Bilateral

PVL (periventricular leukomalacia)

ill defined

4.m

MRT/CT

Right

 

+

   

Infarction of a.cerebri media, almost total

 

Left

Extensive loss of parenchyma in frontal and parietal lobe

5.m

CT

Right

 

+

 

+

   

Bilateral, but predominantly left

PVL

6.m

Right

       

No examination

7.f

MRT

Right

 

+

 

+

   

Bilateral

Slight PVL

8.f

MRT

Right

 

+

 

+

   

Left,

Slight PVL

9.m

CT

Left

+

  

+

+

 

Traffic accident at age 1 year

Right

Volume loss frontotemporally 43 × 46 mm

10.f

MRT

Right

 

+

   

Infarction of a cerebri media

Wallerian degeneration

Left

Extensive

11.m

CT

Right

 

+

   

Infarction a.cerebri ant+posterior

 

Left

Extensive

12.f

MRT

Left

 

+

+

   

Hemi

megaencephali

Right

Extensive

Peri-insular hemisphere ectomi at age 1 year

13.m

CT

Right

+

  

+

+

  

Left

Thin spalt extends from lateral cerebral surface medially

14.f

CT

Left

+

  

+

   

Right

Moderate PVL

15.m

MRT/CT

Right

 

+

 

+

+

 

Pyramidal tract loss

Affection of radiatio optica

Left

Extensive parenchymal defect frontal-parietal + temporal lobe

16.m

MRT/CT

Right

 

+

   

Post traumatic epidural hematoma

 

Left

Extensive loss of most of hemisphere+ small lesion in cerebellar lobe

Post traumatic epidural hematoma at age 6 months

17.m

MRT

Left

 

+

 

+

   

Right

PVL superior of lateral ventricle

18.f

MRT

Right

 

+

 

+

   

Left

PVL

19.m

MRT/CT

Right

 

+

   

peri-ventricular hemorraghic infarction

 

Left

Extensive sequelae with dilatation of the left lateral ventricle

20.m

MRT

Left

 

+

+

   

Susp lesion of pyramidal tract

Right

Polymicrogyri in frontal+ parietal lobes

21.m

MRT

Right

 

+

    

Left thalamus smaller

Left hemisphere smaller

Volume loss of central white matter

  1. PVL (Periventricular leukomalacia)
  2. MRT (Magnetic Resonance Tomography of the brain)
  3. CT (Computerised Tomography of the brain)