MR imaging of acquired fetal brain disorders.
BACKGROUND
Acquired fetal brain disorders represent the third indication of fetal brain MRI, after ventricular dilatation and malformations of the central nervous system.


CONCLUSIONS
MRI is an adequate imaging technique for evaluating fetal brain damage. Fetal brain response to brain injury may be acute, chronic or a combination of acute and chronic. An acute response is not as common in the fetal brain as in the postnatal period. A chronic response or the combination of chronic and acute response are the most common responses of the fetal brain to injury, whatever its origin. MRI also provides the natural history of acquired fetal brain lesions with regard to the stage of development.
Girard
Nadine
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Department of Radiology, AP-HM Nord, Université de la Méditerranée, Chemin des Bourrelly, 13915 Marseille Cedex 20, France. nadine.girard@ap-hm.fr
Gire
Catherine
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Sigaudy
Sabine
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Porcu
Géraldine
G
d'Ercole
Claude
C
Figarella-Branger
Dominique
D
Raybaud
Charles
C
Confort-Gouny
Sylviane
S
D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000145:classification / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000473:pathology; D002831:Choroid Plexus / Q000473:pathology; D003560:Cysts / Q000473:pathology; D004805:Ependyma / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005333:Fetus; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D007239:Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D012307:Risk Factors; D013997:Time Factors; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal; D018754:Ventricular Dysfunction / Q000473:pathology