Combined prenatal ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging in two fetuses with suspected arachnoid cysts.
Sonography and ultrafast magnetic resonance imaging were used in the prenatal assessment of two fetuses with sonographically suspected arachnoid cysts. In one case magnetic resonance imaging confirmed the ultrasound diagnosis, in the other case magnetic resonance imaging revealed the presence of a midline cyst associated with dysgenesis of the corpus callosum. Ultrafast magnetic resonance imaging is a useful supplementary imaging method in the evaluation of pregnancies complicated by fetal cerebral anomalies.
Blaicher
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Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Division of Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy, University Hospital of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria. wibke.blaicher@akh-wien.ac.at
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Kuhle
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Deutinger
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Bernaschek
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D000328:Adult; D016080:Arachnoid Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal / Q000379:methods*