Watershed infarcts in the full term neonatal brain
- Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital/University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
- Correspondence to:
Dr Groenendaal
Department of Neonatology, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, UMC Utrecht, Room KE 04.123.1, Lundlaan 6, Utrecht 3584 EA, Netherlands; f.groenendaalwkz.azu.nl
Watershed infarcts, or parasagittal cerebral injury, were demonstrated in the asphyxiated neonatal brain the late 1970s with the use of technetium scans,1–3 but were extremely difficult to visualise in the acute phase in vivo.2,4,5
Recently, a full term boy was born after a caesarean section because of mild fetal distress. A cephalic version was performed at 38 weeks, but the …
