[Normal echographic anatomy of the brain in newborn babies of various gestational ages]. / Normal'naia ekhograficheskaia anatomiia golovnogo mozga u novorozhdennykh raznogo gestatsionnogo vozrasta.

Normal echographic anatomy of the brain was studied in 179 newborns whose gestation age ranged from 25 to 42 weeks. Specific features of various brain structure images (caudate nucleus head, islet, periventricular spaces, large hemisphere sulcus) are analyzed in relation to the gestation age of the infants and the scanning plane. Normal parameters of the cerebral ventricles, cerebellum, corpus callosum, transparent septum space, etc., are presented. Stability of some brain structures in intrauterine hypotrophy was demonstrated. The studies have confirmed high informative value of echography for the imaging of various brain structures in the diagnosis of brain abnormalities and diseases, as well as the possibility of determining the newborn's gestation age by this method.

[Ultrasonic diagnosis of malformations during the 1st trimester of pregnancy]. / Ul'trazvukovaia diagnostika anomalii razvitiia v I trimestre beremennosti.

Available are the results of ultrasonic investigations for 11 women with embryonal anomalies in the I pregnancy trimester. Echography was demonstrated to detect gross CNS malformations (anencephaly, exencephaly), lymphangiomas, omphalocele, conjoined twins, acardia of amorphic embryo, etc. Transvaginal sensors proved highly informative.

[Ultrasonographic diagnosis of developmental facial defects in fetuses]. / Ul'trazvukovaia diagnostika porokov razvitiia litsa u ploda.

Findings of 55 ultrasound examinations have been evaluated in 35 fetuses with various facial malformations detected by ultrasound and confirmed at birth. Ultrasonographic presentations and diagnostic criteria are given for major facial, palate and lip clefts, abnormal nasal shape, hypo and hypertelorism, microphthalmia, exophthalmia, micro and macrogenia, macroglossia. Ultrasonography proves to be a highly revealing diagnostic study with the provision of a good structural visualization and physicians' skill.

[The echographic diagnosis of developmental defects of the brain in newborn and nursing infants]. / Ekhograficheskaia diagnostika porokov razvitiia golovnogo mozga u novorozhdennykh i detei grudnogo vozrasta.

The clinical diagnosis of a lot of developmental abnormalities of the brain presents considerable difficulties and sometimes it is not feasible. The author provides the data obtained during echographic examinations in 52 children with different developmental abnormalities of the brain. Describes an ultrasonic appearance of different varieties of Arnold-Chiari and Dandy-Walker syndromes, agenesia of the corpus callosum, holoprosencephaly, micropolygyria, porencephaly, hydrocephalus, and so forth. Shows the high information content and value of transfonticular echography in the diagnosis of brain abnormalities in children and neonates.

[Value of echoencephalography in the diagnosis of periventricular leukomalacia in children and the prognosis of their development]. / Znachenie ékhoéntsefalografii v diagnostike i prognoze razvitiia detei s periventrikuliarnoi leikomaliatsiei.

The investigation was conducted to reveal reliable echographic features of early (necrotic) stages of periventricular leukomalacia (PVL) on the basis of retrospective analysis of echograms of decreased children (with postmortem diagnosis of PVL) and survived newborns with pronounced cystic changes in the periventricular areas (advanced PVL stage), which were revealed during dynamic echoencephalography. Altogether 268 echograms of 78 children with a birth-weight from 700 to 2400 g were analysed. All children but one were born preterm. Ultrasound device "Aloka-SSD 118" (Japan), with a transducer frequency of 5mHz, was used during frontal fontanel echoencephalography. Three patterns of echographic image of periventricular areas compromised with the aforementioned disease were identified. In the detection of early PVL stages, the specificity of the technique was 94% and sensitivity, 86%. The followup that lasted from 9 months to 2.5 years revealed varying pronounced neurologic disorders in all the survived children with PVL.