Fellows’ Journal Club The 2016 WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System includes “diffuse midline glioma with histone H3 K27M mutation” as a new diagnostic entity. This study of 33 patients with diffuse midline gliomas found histone H3
Editor’s Choice A cohort of 44 preterm infants underwent T1WI, resting-state fMRI, and DTI at 3T, including 21 infants with brain injuries and 23 infants with normal-appearing structural imaging as controls. Neurodevelopment was evaluated with the Bayley Scales of Infant
Fellows’ Journal Club Cerebral palsy has been predicted by analysis of spontaneous movements in the infant termed “General Movement Assessment.” The authors evaluated the utility of General Movement Assessment in predicting adverse cognitive, language, and motor outcomes in very preterm
Editor’s Choice These investigators retrospectively reviewed the clinical and MR imaging findings of 12 patients with limited dorsal myeloschisis and 10 patients with congenital dermal sinus. A crater covered with pale epithelium was the most common skin lesion in limited
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors evaluated MRIs performed before hospital discharge in 53 infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia that were scored forbrain injury by 2 pediatric neuroradiologists. Potential associations with perinatal and clinical variables from the neonatal intensive care unit
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors set out to determine the maximum level of statistical iterative reconstruction that can be used to establish dose-reduced head CT protocols in a primarily pediatric population while maintaining similar appearance and level of image noise
Editor’s Choice This study investigated whether diffusion tensor imaging tractography-based connectome can differentiate global developmental delay from speech delay in young children. Twelve children with pure speech delay, 14 children with global developmental delay, and 10 children with typical development
Potsic WP, Cotton RT, Handler SD, Zur KB, eds. Surgical Pediatric Otolaryngology. 2nd ed. Thieme; 2016; 694 pp; 900 ill; $169.99 Surgical Pediatric Otolaryngology, edited by William P. Potsic, Robin T. Cotton, Steven D. Handler, and Karen B. Zur, is the
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors describe a Lean Six Sigma project with the goal of reducing the relative use of pediatric head CTs in their population of patients with hydrocephalus by 50% within 6 months. The existing baseline imaging practice
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors retrospectively evaluated 109 fetuses within 25 weeks of gestational age who had undergone both prenatal and postnatal MR imaging of the brain between 2002 and 2014, and using the postnatal MRI as the reference standard,
