Neonatal cerebral ultrasound: anatomical variants and age-related diseases

Giulia Fichera; Roberto Stramare; Gianni Bisogno; Rolf Wyttenbach; Barbara Simonetti Goeggel; Filippo Del Grande; Chiara Giraudo; Marirosa Cristallo Lacalamita

doi:10.1007/s40477-024-00914-8

Neonatal cerebral ultrasound: anatomical variants and age-related diseases

J Ultrasound. 2024 Dec;27(4):993-1002. doi: 10.1007/s40477-024-00914-8. Epub 2024 Jun 25.

Authors

Giulia Fichera¹, Roberto Stramare², Gianni Bisogno³, Rolf Wyttenbach^{4

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6}, Barbara Simonetti Goeggel^{5

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6}, Filippo Del Grande^{4

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10}, Chiara Giraudo², Marirosa Cristallo Lacalamita⁴

Affiliations

¹ Pediatric Radiology, University Hospital of Padova, Padua, Italy. giulia.fichera@studenti.unipd.it.
² Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health (DCTV), University of Padova, Padua, Italy.
³ Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Division, University Hospital of Padova, Padua, Italy.
⁴ Imaging Institute of Southern Switzerland EOC, Bellinzona, Switzerland.
⁵ Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università Della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland.
⁶ Department of Diagnostic, Interventional and Pediatric Radiology (DIPR), Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁷ Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁸ Department of Neuropaediatrics, Institute of Paediatrics of Southern Switzerland, San Giovanni Hospital, Bellinzona, Switzerland.
⁹ University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹⁰ Department of Radiology, Ospedale Regionale di Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland.

Abstract

Cerebral ultrasound is a non-invasive imaging technique widely used for the assessment of brain anatomy and diseases in neonates and infants. Indeed, it allows a precise characterization of common variants such as cavum septum pellucidum or diseases like intraventricular hemorrhage. The aim of this pictorial review is to provide a comprehensive overview of the main ultrasound features of the most common cerebral anatomical variants and disorders detectable by cerebral ultrasound using an age-related approach which could support non-subspecialized radiologists.

Keywords: Anatomical variants; Brain disorders; Cerebral ultrasound; Infants.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Brain Diseases* / diagnostic imaging
Brain* / diagnostic imaging
Echoencephalography / methods
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Ultrasonography / methods