Abstract
Eighteen children with diplegic form of cerebral palsy (CP) underwent magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) because of the enlarged occipital horns of both lateral ventricles found
on previous computerized tomography (CT). In 16 of them squint was present. MRI in
flow attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) and turbo spin echo (TSE) modes (T2 weighted
images) best showed white matter lesions in occipital areas in all patients with squint,
while no white matter changes could be detected in CT (in retrospect), thus proving
the superiority of MRI in examining CP children. The authors postulate that the hemispheric
occipital lesion causing impairment of visual co-ordination may result in squint.
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Article info
Publication history
Accepted:
December 26,
2000
Received in revised form:
December 25,
2000
Received:
June 1,
2000
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© 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
