The dynamic fetal brain

✍ Scribed by Dena Towner; John McGahan; Laila Rhee-Morris; Eugenio Gerscovich

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 322 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0091-2751
• DOI: 10.1002/jcu.20320

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Purpose.

To evaluate fetuses with normal intracranial anatomy in the second trimester that became abnormal in the third trimester.

Methods.

We sonographically examined 6 fetuses with a normal second‐trimester head sonogram that presented later in pregnancy with an abnormal head sonogram.

Results.

Four categories of intracranial pathology were depicted: obstructive hydrocephalus, intraventricular intracranial hemorrhage, non‐intraventricular intracranial hemorrhage, and porencephaly.

Conclusions.

Despite a normal midtrimester intracranial examination, evaluation of the fetal intracranial contents should be undertaken in subsequent sonographic examinations, because significant pathology can develop spontaneously. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound, 2007