Mri evaluation of brain in paediatric patients presenting with developmental delay

Development is a complex and continuous process of maturity, parallel to the growth of children, which can affect many aspects, and begins from conception and continues until maturity.[1] Children who cannot gain/acquire appropriate developmental skills at the expected age have been considered suffering from developmental delay.[2] Developmental delay (DD), defined as the delay in meeting developmental milestones at the expected age, is a frequently encountered problem in pediatric neurology.[3] Neuroimaging may detect abnormalities in up to 50% of children with neurodevelopmental disability, with a variable detection rate dependent on factors such as selection criteria and imaging method used.So our aim of this study is to identify the prevalence of abnormalities of the brain in children with developmental delay on MRI and further categorize the morphological abnormalities.