Uduma Felix Uduma
University of Uyo, Nigeria
Title: Using a supportive community group process to cope with the trauma of social fragmentation and promote re-socialization in the Bahamas
Biography
Biography: Uduma Felix Uduma
Abstract
Childhood cerebral hemiatrophy is an uncommon clinical entity. Its aetiologies are diverse, but can generally be grouped into congenital and acquired. The congenital type is intrauterine in origin, while the acquired type occurs early in life, usually before two years of life. When childhood cerebral hemiatrophy occurs, it evokes a spectrum of compensatory calvarial sequlae. These include ipsilateral calvarial thickening, diploe widening, hyper-pneumatization of paranasal sinues/mastoids, elevation of petrous bone and small middle cranial fossa. MRI is very effective in high lighting brain atrophy, associated parenchymal changes and even the above enumerated skull changes. Our two case reports of left hemi-cerebral atrophy in male Cameroonian children seen in our MRI practice aptly demonstrated some of the aforementioned radiological features of childhood cerebral hemiatrophy noted in literature review.