Abstract:SUMMARY
A study of the brains of 105 newborns (82 pre‐term and 23 term infants), who failed to survive after treatment for severe respiratory distress in an intensive care unit, revealed that 63 of the pre‐term infants died as a result of subependymal germinal plate hemorrhage. Additional lesions were found in the cerebral cortex, hippocampus, cerebral white matter and cranial nerve nuclei. The clinical course of 25 of the 105 infants was studied intensively. In these infants the severity of the lesions appear… Show more
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