Prenatal diagnosis of anasarca in an end-second trimester fetus presenting with sacrococcygeal teratoma by magnetic resonance imaging.
Fetal hydrops is a known complication of sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) due to arteriovenous shunts within the tumor, which is clinically important and influence patients' prognosis. We present unique MRI morphological findings of a marked fetal anasarca in a case of an end-second trimester fetus presenting with SCT.
Nassenstein
Kai
K
Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, D - 45122 Essen, Germany. kai.nassenstein@uni-essen.de
Schweiger
Bernd
B
Barkhausen
Joerg
J
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011262:Pregnancy Trimester, Second; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D012445:Sacrococcygeal Region; D013724:Teratoma / Q000175:diagnosis*