In 1903 Schmorl4 defined Kernikterus as jaundice of the nuclear masses of the brain. It includes usually the caudate, lenticulate, subthalamic and dentate nuclei, the thalami, mammillary bodies, Ammon's horns, the nuclei of the cranial nerves, the olives, parts of the cerebellar cortex and the anterior and posterior horns of the spinal cord. Kernikterus is almost always associated with icterus ...