title: Prenatal sonographic diagnosis of diastematomyelia in a diabetic woman.
abstract: Diastematomyelia is a structural anomaly which concerns primarily the spine and secondarily the nervous structures contained in it. A case of early prenatal diagnosis (20th week) by ultrasound of diastematomyelia with associated diplomyelia in a diabetic woman is reported. Radiological and pathological examination of the fetus after therapeutic abortion confirmed the diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: IV Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pachí
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Maggi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Giancotti
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Forleo
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Torregrossa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Roggini
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bosman
mesh_terms: D000032:Abortion, Therapeutic; D000328:Adult; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006943:Hyperglycemia / Q000150:complications; D011247:Pregnancy; D011254:Pregnancy in Diabetics / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011859:Radiography; D016136:Spina Bifida Occulta / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal