title: Prenatal diagnosis of fetal brain tumors.
abstract: Two cases of congenital brain tumors were detected during routine antepartum sonography at the Mount Sinai Medical Center Perinatal Ultrasound Unit. In both cases, diagnosis was made during the third trimester at 31 and 33 weeks, respectively. In one of these patients, no intracranial abnormalities were noted on a sonogram performed in conjunction with genetic amniocentesis at 18 weeks gestation. The histologic diagnosis of both tumors was glioblastoma multiforme grade III. Previous reports describing the prenatal sonographic diagnosis of intracranial tumors have been in cases with fetal intracranial teratomas.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, N.Y.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alvarez
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Chitkara
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lynch
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Mehalek
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Heller
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Berkowitz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005909:Glioblastoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography