The role echoencephalography in neurological emergencies in infants and neonates

Echoencefalography is a screening methode in emergengy diseases in pediatrics. It offers very important data and aloud a good diagnosis bvefore CT scan and MRI, concerning pericerebral spaces, lateral ventriculi, brain and signs of intracerebral hypertension. Hydrocephalus and subdural collection are the most rapidly diagnosed by echoencephalography. Subdural hematoma in infants is in the majority of cases the result of a cranial trauma and very often is bilateraly present. We presented our experience aquired in the Emergency Department in a period of three years, between 2005–2007. There were analysed all the c…