Postnatal management and outcome for fetal-diagnosed intra-cerebral cystic masses and tumours.
The increasing availability and resolution of non-invasive prenatal imaging has increased our ability to diagnose accurately a wide variety of fetal anomalies. It has also resulted in the serendipitous discovery of 'lesions' that may have little clinical impact upon the child's subsequent development although their ability to raise parental anxiety can be great. The purpose of this review is to put the postnatal clinical relevance of some of these findings into their proper context.
Hayward
Richard
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Department of Paediatric Peurosurgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK. Haywar@gosh.nhs.uk
D016080:Arachnoid Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D003616:Dandy-Walker Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000196:embryology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011247:Pregnancy; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D011379:Prognosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed