title: [Acrania ultrasonography diagnosis: a rare embryologic malformation].
abstract: The authors report a case of acrania diagnosed on antenatal period in a routine morphologic ultrasonography at 19 weeks of intra uterine gestation on a 20-year-old patient, gravida 1, para 0. Acrania associated with exencephaly is a rare and lethal malformation characterized by a defect of development of the flat bones of the scalp whereas cerebral tissue is present often abnormal. Ultrasonography had allowed to find besides the cerebral malformation, spinal and visceral fetal malformations as well as cord abnormality that included only two vessels.
authors.affiliation: Service d'imagerie médicale, CHU Mongi Slim, La Marsa, Tunis, Tunisie.
authors.forename: Lamia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rezgui-Marhoul
authors.forename: Wassim
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Saïd
authors.forename: Lassaad
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dridi
authors.forename: Leila
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ben Farhat
authors.forename: Salmen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ben M'Rad
authors.forename: Lotfi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hendaoui
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009436:Neural Tube Defects / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011247:Pregnancy; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal