[Ultrasonographic screening of the cranium in risk newborn (author's transl)].

This article goes into the question whether prophylactic examination of the cranium of risk newborn via ultrasonography would be meaningful or not. A total of 443 patients was examined during the period January to September 1980. Of these, 160 had shown clinical signs, whereas the remaining 283 clinically apparently normal risk newborn were subjected to ultrasonography before discharge. In 21 cases, findings were pathological (7.4%). Ventricles which were pathologically deformed and of plump shape, represented the main group, followed by hydrocephalus, subdural effusion and intraventricular haemorrhage.