A case report of recurrent anencephaly and literature review.
Anencephaly is a rare congenital anomaly in which the forebrain, meninges, vault of the skull, and scalp all fail to form. We report a case of a 32-year-old gravida 2 woman with an anencephalic fetus detected at the 21st gestational week. She had a history of an intrauterine fetal death of an anencephalic fetus at the 20th gestational week two years before. We present the case and briefly review the literature.
Koukoura
O
O
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
Sifakis
S
S
Stratoudakis
G
G
Mantas
N
N
Kaminopetros
P
P
Koumantakis
E
E
D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000196:embryology; D000032:Abortion, Therapeutic; D000328:Adult; D000649:Amniocentesis; D000757:Anencephaly / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000196:embryology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal