Observations on cerebral cytomegalic inclusion disease of the foetus and newborn.

We report observations on three cases of cytomegalic inclusion disease. In one, advanced periventricular necrosis of brain with calco-siderosis antedated purpuric and icteric manifestations of the disease which showed shortly after birth at eight months gestation. In the second, advanced periventricular cerebral necrosis had occurred by the sixth month of foetal life, while the third was diagnosed at birth and the disease halted during steroid therapy. Case Reports