[The clinical significance of cysts of the vascular plexuses in the cerebral ventricles of newborn infants].

The incidence of cysts of cerebral ventricular vascular plexuses (CVP), estimated with the use of echography in 2671 newborns, has made up 4.16% in full-term babies and 3.67% in preterm ones. Analysis of 40 CVP cases has shown that asphyxia and marked mechanical effects on fetal head and neck at birth and intrauterine herpetic infection may be conducive to the development of this condition. Psychomotor development of these children in the first 3 years of life was normal and only if CVP were combined with other diseases inducing stable brain injuries, neurologic disorders were present.