neonatal cranial spinal sonography

NEONATAL CRANIAL SONOGRAPHY

Joan K. Zawin, M.D.Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical

Center

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Indications for HUS• Prematurity

• ↑ Head circumference

• Persistent large fontanelle

• Craniosynostosis

• ECMO

• Hypoxia

• FTT

• Mass

• Intracranial infection

• Trauma


• Small acoustic window

• Cannot assess myelination

• Diffuse white matter injury

• Cerebellar lesions, infarctions, small isolated IVH - can be missed

Limitations of HUS

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Acoustic Windows• Anterior Fontanelle ( 9 - 15 mos)

• Posterior Fontanelle ( 3 mos)

• occipital horns, posterior white matter

• calcar avis

• Mastoid Fontanelle ( 24 mos)

• cerebellum, brainstem, cervical cord

• Transtemporal

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Choroid Plexus

• Thin in roof of III vent and in temporal horn

• “Split choroid” sign in trigone

• Present but not seen in roof of IV vent

• Never seen in occipital horn or anterior to foramen Monroe

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Choroid Plexus Cysts

• Common, 3% prevalence

• Glomus

• < 1 cm, unilateral = insignificant

• > 1cm, bilateral = ↑ assoc. with chromosomal abnormalities

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Midline Cystic Structures

• Communicate with each other

• Do not communicate with ventricular system or subarachnoid spaces

• Obliterated from posterior ➞ anterior


Cavum Septum Pellucidum

• Between frontal horns

• Anterior to foramen of Monroe

• Usually closes 2-6 months after birth


Cavum Septum Vergae

• Between bodies of lateral ventricles

• Posterior to foramen of Monroe

• Begins to close at 6 mos. gestation

• 97% closed at birth


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Cavum Veli Interpositi

• Posterior extension of CSV

• Posterior to quadrageminal plate cistern - pineal gland

• Only seen in very premature newborns


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Absent Septum Pellucidum


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Germinal Matrix

• Between ependyma lateral vent floor above and caudate nucleus below

• Roof of III and IV ventricles

• Involution begins at 3 mos gestation

• complete involution by 36 wks

• NOT seen unless there is a bleed

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ICH and PVL

• Most common CNS pathologies in premies

• Risk factors:

• < 1500 gm (20 - 25% incd)

• < 30 wks. gestation

• 67% < 32 wks. will have ICH

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Intracranial Hemorrhage

• 25 - 50% clinically silent

• Usually within first 3 days of life

• 50% Day 1

• 25% Day 2

• 80 - 90% occur by 3 - 4 days of age

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Intracranial Hemorrhage in

Premature Newborns

•Impaired autoregulation ➟ pressure passive circulation

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Causes of ICH in premies

• Systemic ↑ BP

• [↑P CO2, ↓Hb, ↑ intravascular vol]

• Increased CNS Venous Pressure

• asphyxia, tension PNTX, CHF, mechanical ventilation, tracheal suctioning

• Decreased CNS Perfusion

• ↓ Hb, ↓PO2, systemic hypotension43


Screening

asx <1,000 gm

day 3-5 day 10-14

day 28

asx1,000 - 1250

gm

day 3-5day 28

asx1,251 - 1,500

gm

day 3-5Prior to discharge

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Papile Classification

Grade I 40% GMH only

Grade II 25% GMH + IVH

Grade III 20% GMH + IVH + ↑Vents

Grade IV 15%GMH + IVH +

parenchymal blood+/- ↑Vents

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Grade IV Hemorrhage

• Venous hemorrhagic infarction secondary to venous outflow compression

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Connatal Cysts

• Normal variant; incidence = 0.7%

• Superolateral to frontal horns

• Anterior to Foramen of Monroe

• “String of Pearls”

• Resolve spontaneously


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Caudothalamic Groove Cysts

• Congenital:

• Germinolytic

• chromosomal, metabolic, incidental

• Acquired:

• Subepdendymal

• post-hemmorahgic


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Periventricular Leukomalacia

• #1 ischemic brain injury in preemies

• <32 wks, <1500 g ; Hypocarbia

• ↑ echotexture periventricular white matter

• DDX:

• normal “flaring”

• transient edema

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Periventricular Leukomalacia

• Abnormal periventricular echotexture disappears in 2 - 3 wks

• 15% affected infants will then develop cysts

• 60 - 100% develop cerebral palsy

• visual and intellectual disabilities

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Cerebral Edema

• ↑ Parenchymal echogenicity

• ↓ Sulcal/gyral differentiation

• ↓ Vascular pulsations

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Perivascular Mineralization

• TORCH

• Trisomies(21 and 13)

• Twin-twin transfusion

• Fetal ETOH or cocaine exposure

• Neonatal asphyxia

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Vein of Galen Malformation

• Venous ectasia due to AVM

• Superior to cerebellum - quadrageminal plate cistern

• SX: CHF, seizures, hydrocephalus, hemorrhage( in older kids)

• RX = embolization


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Posterior Fossa

• Cerebellar vermis = midline/echogenic

• Cerebellar hemispheres= hypoechoic

• Cisterna magna - posterior/ inferior to vermis

• communicates with IV vent via vallecula

• ↑ in Dandy Walker, ↓ with Chiari

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Classic Dandy Walker

• Vermian hypoplasia

• Cystic dilatation posterior fossa communicating with IV vent

• Enlarged posterior fossa

• Tocular-lambdoid inversion


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Dandy Walker Continuum

• Variant with vermis present and less posterior fossa enlargement

• Persistent Blake Pouch Cyst

• looks like non-specific posterior fossa cyst

• Mega Cisterna Magna


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Benign Hygroma of Infancy

• Children 6 mos. - 2 yrs.

• Head circumference > 97th percentile

• Cause unknown, familial?

• Subarachnoid spaces > 3.3mm

• +/- slight ventricular enlargement

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Hydrocephalus

• Obstructive: (non-communicating)

• most common

• CSF cannot enter subarachnoid space

• Aqeductal stenosis, Chiari Malformation, Dandy - Walker

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Hydrocephalus

• Non-obstructive: (communicating)

• impaired CSF resorption

• infection, hemorrhage, congenital abs. arachnoid villi

• Ex Vacuo:

• loss of brain parenchyma → ↑ CSF spaces

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Hydrocephalus

• Levene Index:

• ≤ 40 wks.

• COR image just posterior to Foramen of Monroe

• 3 Dot sign

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Normal Ventricular Measurements

• COR Images:

• Frontal horn: ≤ 13 mm (2.9 mm)

• III ventricle: ≤ 10 mm (2.6 mm)

• Subarachnoid space: ≤ 4 mm

• SAG Images:

• TOD ≤ 24.7mm (12mm)

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Spinal Ultrasound


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Spinal Ultrasound

• ≤ 4 months of age

• Anatomic Variants:

• Ventriculus Terminalis

• Filar Cysts

• Pseudomass due to clumped nerve roots

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Filar Cysts

• fusiform

• anachoic

• thin wall, well defined

• immediately distal to conus


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Tethered Cord

• Findings:

• conus below L2-L3

• long thin conus

• posterior position of cord/filum

• ↓nerve root pulsations

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Pilonidal Sinus

• aka sacral dimple; incd= 2-9%

• < 5 mm diameter, <2.5 cm from anus

• No cutaneous abnormalities

• Do not extend to neural structures

• Short hypoechoic tract from skin to coccyx

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Dorsal Dermal Sinus

• Incomplete separation neural and cutaneous ectoderm➝ epithelial-line tract

• Connects skin to cord/cauda equina/arachnoid space

• ↑ incd. meningitis/abscesses

• Superior to coccyx

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Dorsal Dermal Sinus

• Tract hypoechoic relative to SQ fat hyperechoic in CSF

• Associated Findings:

• cutaneous hemangiomata, hairy nevi

• low conus

• intraspinal lipomas, epidermoids/dermoids

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Caudal Regression


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Diastematomyelia


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Interesting Cases


Twin - Twin TransfusionRecepient

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ECMO

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Abnormal Prenatal Renal Ultrasound


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Zellweger Syndrome

• Cerebrohepatorenal Syndrome

• Autosomal recessive leukodystrophy

• Deficiency of peroxisomes

• Life span ≤ 1 year

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Birth Trauma

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Caput Succandeum

• Serosanguinous subcutaneous fluid collection

• Below scalp and superficial to periosteum

• Associated with moulding and over-riding sutures

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Contact

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• Joan K. Zawin <[email protected]>


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