title: Iniencephaly: Prenatal diagnosis with postmortem findings.
abstract: Iniencephaly is a rare but almost always lethal neural tube defect with the following cardinal features: occipital bone defect, partial or total absence of cervicothoracal vertebrae and fetal retroflexion. Iniencephaly is associated with malformations of the central nervous system, gastrointestinal and cardiovascular system. Prenatally diagnosed cases of iniencephaly are rare because careful and early ultrasonographic evaluation is necessary. The present cases of iniencephaly were found to carry associated malformations such as atrioventricular septal defect and club foot. We present an iniencephaly prenatally diagnosed by sonography, in which therapeutic abortion was induced, with a review of the published literature.
authors: Zeynep Kamil Gynecologic and Pediatric Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. astugrul@superonline.com
authors: Semih
authors: S
authors: Tugrul
authors: Mehmet
authors: M
authors: Uludoğan
authors: Oya
authors: O
authors: Pekin
authors: Hüsamettin
authors: H
authors: Uslu
authors: Cem
authors: C
authors: Celik
authors: Firat
authors: F
authors: Ersan
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009436:Neural Tube Defects / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal