Volume 25, Issue 5 pp. 844-847
Case Report

Magnetic Resonance Fiber Tracking in a Neonate with Hemimegalencephaly

Thomas J Re

Corresponding Author

Thomas J Re

Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School - Radiology, Boston, MA

Correspondence: Address correspondence to Thomas J Re, Boston Children's Hospital, 1 Autumn St, Room 456, Boston, MA 02115. E-mail: [email protected].Search for more papers by this author
Laura Scarciolla

Laura Scarciolla

University Campus Biomedico – Radiology, Rome, Italy

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Emi Takahashi

Emi Takahashi

Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School – Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Medicine, Fetal and Neonatal Imaging Science Center, Boston, MA

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Nicola Specchio

Nicola Specchio

Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital – Neurology, Rome, Italy

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Bruno Bernardi

Bruno Bernardi

Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital – Neuroradiology, Rome, Italy

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Daniela Longo

Daniela Longo

Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital – Neuroradiology, Rome, Italy

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First published: 06 February 2015
Citations: 11

Conflict of Interest: None.

ABSTRACT

A magnetic resonance diffusion fiber tracking study in neonate diagnosed with left hemisphere hemimegalencephaly is presented. Despite diffuse morphologic deformities identified in conventional imaging, all major pathways were identifiable bilaterally with minor aberrations in vicinity of morphologic lesions.

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