✦ LIBER ✦
A case of an epignathus with intracranial extension appearing as a persistently open mouth at 16 weeks and subsequently diagnosed at 20 weeks of gestation
✍ Scribed by Pavel Calda; Michaela Novotná; David Čutka; Miroslav Břešt'ák; Lubomír Hašlík; Barbara Goldová; Ivana Vítková; Manuela Vaněčková; Zdeněk Seidl
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 318 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0091-2751
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
We report a rare case of oral mass (epignathus) with intracranial extension originally suspected antenatally at 16 weeks' gestation because of a persistent open mouth. Postmortem MRI and pathologic examination of the fetus confirmed an oral teratoma with bilateral ventricular dilatation, corpus callosum agenesis, and a neuroepithelial intracranial cyst. The relevant literature regarding this anomaly is reviewed. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound, 2011