Affiliations: Departments of Radiology, Yüzüncü
Yıl University, Faculty of Medicine, Van, Turkey | Departments of Pediatric Neurology,
Yüzüncü Yıl University, Faculty of Medicine, Van,
Turkey | Departments of Neurosurgery, Yüzüncü
Yıl University, Faculty of Medicine, Van, Turkey | Departments of Hematology, Yüzüncü
Yıl University, Faculty of Medicine, Van, Turkey | Departments of Neurology, Yüzüncü
Yıl University, Faculty of Medicine, Van, Turkey
Note: [] Correspondence: Özkan Ünal, M.D.,
Yüzüncü Yıl University Faculty of Medicine Department of
Radiology, Van, 65200, Turkey. Tel: +90 432 2168373, fax: +90 432 2167519.
E-mail: ozkan_unal@hotmail.com
Abstract: The etiology of cerebral hemiatrophy may be congenital or acquired.
Trauma, infection, vascular abnormality, ischemic and hemorrhagic conditions
may be the etiologic factors in acquired type. There is limited information
about its association with other disorders in the literature. We presented
three new cases of cerebral hemiatrophy associated with some hematological and
developmental disorders. Cerebral hemiatrophy was associated with thalassemia
major in a 10-year-old girl, acute myeloblastic leukemia and Marfan syndrome in
a 23-year-old man, and craniosynostosis in a 1-year-old boy. To the best of our
knowledge, thalassemia major, myeloblastic leukemia, Marfan syndrome and
craniosynostosis have not been reported in cerebral hemiatrophy in the
literature. (J Pediatr Neurol 2004; 2(3): 171–174).
