UPC: 9783319934402 | Birth Trauma and Perinatal Brain Damage (Hardcover)

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This book focuses on traumatic birth injuries predominantly of the skull and brain as well as hemorrhagic and ischemic disorders of cerebral circulation in fetuses and newborns providing information on each condition s classification incidence etiology and pathogenesis pathomorphology clinic diagnostics prognosis and complications. It discusses the configuration (molding) of the head venous congestion displacements of cranial bones ruptures of the cerebellar tentorium during labor and the compression of the skull and brain damage caused by obstetric operations and asynclitic insertion of the head while also describing the importance of the periosteal stagnation of the skull to assess the delivery and explanation of tentorium tears. Intracranial hemorrhages are considered in detail taking into account the role of the traumatic factor in their occurrence and hypoxic-ischemic brain lesions (periventricular leukomalacia selective neuronal necrosis multicystic encephalomalacia etc.). Lastly it offers the world s first explanation of why tentorium tears occur most frequently in the left half providing an original classification of damaged tentoria subarachnoid and intraventricular hemorrhages and the degree of configuration of the head in childbirth. Given the depth and breadth of its coverage the book offers an essential resource for neonatologists obstetricians-gynecologists perinatologists pediatric neurologists pathologists pediatricians forensic experts and neuroimaging professionals.