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"mild to moderate asphyxia, allows time for cerebral autoregulation to redirect blood flow to high metabolic brain areas, at the cost of vascular watershed areas."

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Acronyms
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"there is some overlap with PIVH"

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"parieto-occipital and posterior temporal lobes (peri-Sylvian and posterior inter-vascular watershed) are more often affected than frontal lobes (parasagittal and anterior inter-vascular watershed)"

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"parieto-occipital and posterior temporal lobes (peri-Sylvian and posterior inter-vascular watershed) are more often affected than frontal lobes (parasagittal and anterior inter-vascular watershed)"

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"parieto-occipital and posterior temporal lobes (peri-Sylvian and posterior inter-vascular watershed) are more often affected than frontal lobes (parasagittal and anterior inter-vascular watershed)"

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"both periventricular and subcortical leukomalacia are a continuous disease spectrum: vascular border zones shift towards the periphery as the brain further matures; for this reason, white matter lesions move from the periventricular to the subcortical zone"

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