Sign
Periventricular hemorrhagic infarction
A venous infarction of the white matter beside the lateral ventricle that appears on cranial ultrasound as an echodense or cystic lesion, historically called grade IV intraventricular hemorrhage.
Also called: PVHI
- Found
- Seen on cranial ultrasound as an echodense or cystic lesion in the periventricular white matter beside the lateral ventricle.
- Normal
- Symmetrical periventricular white matter of uniform echogenicity with no focal lesion beside the ventricle.
- Abnormal
- A focal echodense lesion in the periventricular white matter, usually beside the frontal horn of the lateral ventricle or in the parietal white matter, sometimes becoming cystic.
- Suggests
- A venous infarction of the periventricular white matter, historically graded as grade IV intraventricular hemorrhage.