Intraventricular Hemorrhage, Periventricular Leukomalacia

Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) in full-term infants causes birth trauma, hemorrhagic infarction, coagulation abnormalities (including complications of extracorporeal circulation therapy), vascular malformations, neoplastic lesions, and infections. The sites of hemorrhage are choroid plexus (35%), thalamus (24%), germinal matrix (17%), parenchymal hemorrhage (14%), and unknown (10%).