Neonatal Cranial Ultrasonography

• Main Author: Meijler, Gerda (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2012.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neuroradiology.; Pediatrics.; Medicine & Public Health.

Cranial ultrasonography is the most accessible, patient friendly, and cheapest neuroimaging technique on the neonatal ward. It provides important information on brain maturation in the (preterm) neonate and enables the detection of frequently occurring brain anomalies in both preterm and full term n...

Table of Contents:

• I. Theory: General introduction
• Advantages and aims of neonatal cranial ultrasonography
• Technical aspects
• Standard views, using anterior fontanel as acoustic window: coronal and sagittal planes.-Additional views using supplement acoustic windows (posterior fontanel, mastoid fontanel, temporal window)
• Image assesment
• Other neuro-imaging techniques. - Maturational changes
• Summary
• Appendices. II. Ultrasound anatomy of the neonatal brain.