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Iniencephaly: Prenatal diagnosis with postmortem findings
- Source :
- The journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research. 33(4)
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- Iniencephaly is a rare but almost always lethal neural tube defect with the following cardinal features: occipital bone defect, partial or total absence of cervicothoracal vertebrae and fetal retroflexion. Iniencephaly is associated with malformations of the central nervous system, gastrointestinal and cardiovascular system. Prenatally diagnosed cases of iniencephaly are rare because careful and early ultrasonographic evaluation is necessary. The present cases of iniencephaly were found to carry associated malformations such as atrioventricular septal defect and club foot. We present an iniencephaly prenatally diagnosed by sonography, in which therapeutic abortion was induced, with a review of the published literature.
- Subjects :
- Male
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Fetus
Neural tube defect
business.industry
Occipital bone
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Prenatal diagnosis
Iniencephaly
medicine.disease
Therapeutic abortion
Ultrasonography, Prenatal
Fetal Diseases
Fatal Outcome
Pregnancy
medicine
Humans
Abnormalities, Multiple
Female
Radiology
Neural Tube Defects
Ultrasonography
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13418076
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....46f9e0fa764a4ebe0a6f898ccbddd3cd