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01.02.2005 | Correspondence
Can periventricular leucomalacia cause spastic diplegia in premature infants?
verfasst von:
Colin L. Crawford
Erschienen in:
European Journal of Pediatrics
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Ausgabe 2/2005
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Sir: Blumenthal [
3] claims that periventricular leucomalacia (PVL) is the most common cause of cerebral palsy. He notes that Banker and Larroche [
1] coined this term in 1962. Shuman and Selednik [
9] found that lesions at post mortem were present in restricted sites and always in the collateral trigone. This site, however, is in the optic radiation and a considerable distance from the cortico-spinal pathways, which run in the posterior limb of the internal capsule [
6]. If PVL lesions do cause permanent nerve damage, it is surprising that cortical blindness is rare. …