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Cerebellar Injury patterns that we identified on MRI brain were cerebellar hemorrhage, siderosis and\/or cerebellar volume loss. RESULTS: Cerebellar injury (21\/65, 32.3%) in preterm infants with NEC was associated with patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) (18\/21(85.7%) vs. 25\/44(56.8%); p\u200a=\u200a0.021), blood culture positive sepsis (13\/21 (61.9%) vs. 11\/44 (25%); p\u200a=\u200a0.004) following NEC, predominantly grew gram positive bacteria (9\/21(42.9%) vs. 4\/44(9.1%); p\u200a=\u200a0.001), greater red cell transfusion, higher rates of cholestasis following NEC and differences in intestinal histopathology (more hemorrhagic and reparative lesions) on univariate analysis. Those with cerebellar injury had higher grade white matter injury (14\/21 (66.7%) vs. 4\/44(9.1%) p\u200a=\u200a0.0005) and higher-grade ROP (70.6% vs. 38.5%; p\u200a=\u200a0.027) than those without cerebellar injury. On multilogistic regression, the positive blood culture sepsis (OR 3.9, CI 1.1\u201313.7, p\u200a=\u200a0.03), PDA (OR 4.5, CI 1.0\u201319.9, p\u200a=\u200a0.04) and severe intestinal pathological hemorrhage (grade 3-4) (OR 16.9, CI 2.1\u2013135.5, p\u200a=\u200a0.007) were independently associated with higher risk of cerebellar injury. 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