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Severe neonatal hypernatraemia is a life-threatening electrolyte disorder because of its neurological complications. These are brain oedema, intracranial haemorrhages, haemorrhagic infarcts and thromboses. There are few reports concerning the radiological findings in the central nervous system in severe neonatal hypernatraemia. Cranial MRI findings in hypernatraemia have been reported in an older child, but have not been described in newborn infants. We report the cranial MRI findings in a newborn infant with acute renal failure and severe hypernatraemia.
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Received: 29 April 1999 Accepted: 15 November 1999
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Korkmaz, A., Yiğit, Ş., Fırat, M. et al. Cranial MRI in neonatal hypernatraemic dehydration. Pediatric Radiology 30, 323–325 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002470050749
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002470050749