[The cerebrospinal fluid pathways in infantile cerebral palsy]

Liquor routes of the brain and spine were examined in 16 children aged 2 to 12 with infantile cerebral paralysis by radioisotope cistern-myelography with Tc99m-DTPK. Simultaneous imaging of liquor tract pathology in the brain and spine helped distinguish three variants of liquorodynamic abnormalities in infantile cerebral paralysis characterized by various combinations of disorders, in CSF circulation, resorption, and formation of routes for additional CSF discharge. The role of CSF routes involvement in the brain and spine in the formation of a pathologic pattern in infantile cerebral paralysis is analyzed.