Brain imaging in newborn and infant, the method we choose?

The availability of increasingly performant methods for investigating the neonate and infant brain led to early diagnosis of cerebral pathologies. Aims: Evaluating the diagnostic imaging of cerebral pathology investigations. Material and methods: A retrospective study was conducted over a period of two years (2013 – 2015). 1450 patients were included aged 0 to 18 months, average 3.4 months. All patients were investigated by ultrasonography. Of these, 200 patients (13.8%) performed a CT examination and a smaller number of 75 patients (5.17%) a MRI investigation. 40 (2.75%) of patients were evaluated using all 3 m…