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We thank Professors Linda de Vries and Frances Cowan for their interest in our recent publication, “Validation of an MRI Brain Injury and Growth Scoring System in Very Preterm Infants Scanned at 29- to 35-Week Postmenstrual Age.”1 In their correspondence, the authors expressed concern about our example presented in On-line Fig 2, which they said we presented as “grade 2 white matter injury (WMI).” They correctly pointed out that the example shows connatal cysts and not cystic periventricular leukomalacia (PVL), an observation with which we entirely agree. They were concerned that connatal cysts are “still being misinterpreted as cystic WMI.”