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- Title
Necrosis of the fetal brain stem with cerebellar hypoplasia.
- Authors
Gessaga, E.; Herrick, M.; Urich, H.
- Abstract
Two neonates are presented with intrauterine necrosis of the brain stem. In one the necrosis and calcification were multifocal and extended from the thalamus to the medulla oblongata. In the other the process was limited to the medulla, but was associated with severe hypoplasia of the nuclei pontis. In both cases the cerebellum was hypoplastic and immature for the gestational age. The connection between the two lesions remains obscure, and two hypotheses are discussed. One hypothesis ascribes the delay in cerebellar development to subliminal damage caused by the same insult that produced the brain-stem lesions, the other considers the possible effects of partial deafferentation on the maturation of the cerebellum.
- Publication
Acta Neuropathologica, 1986, Vol 69, Issue 3/4, p326
- ISSN
0001-6322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00688312