Prenatal sonographic diagnosis of diastematomyelia in a diabetic woman.
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.
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IV Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
Maggi
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Giancotti
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Forleo
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Torregrossa
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Roggini
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Bosman
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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