This book focuses on traumatic birth injuries predominantly of the skull and brain as well as
hemorrhagic and ischemic disorders of cerebral circulation in fetuses and newborns providing
information on each condition¿s classification incidence etiology and pathogenesis
pathomorphology clinic diagnostics prognosis and complications. It discusses the
configuration (molding) of the head venous congestion displacements of cranial bones
ruptures of the cerebellar tentorium during labor and the compression of the skull and brain
damage caused by obstetric operations and asynclitic insertion of the head while also
describing the importance of the periosteal stagnation of the skull to assess the delivery and
explanation of tentorium tears. Intracranial hemorrhages are considered in detail taking into
account the role of the traumatic factor in their occurrence and hypoxic-ischemic brain lesions
(periventricular leukomalacia selective neuronal necrosis multicystic encephalomalacia
etc.). Lastly it offers the world¿s first explanation of why tentorium tears occur most
frequently in the left half providing an original classification of damaged tentoria
subarachnoid and intraventricular hemorrhages and the degree of configuration of the head in
childbirth. Given the depth and breadth of its coverage the book offers an essential resource
for neonatologists obstetricians-gynecologists perinatologists pediatric neurologists
pathologists pediatricians forensic experts and neuroimaging professionals.
