Prenatal detection and conservative management of a partial fundal uterine dehiscence.
Uterine defects in pregnancy are rare and may pose difficulties in definition and clinical management. Defects involving the myometrium encompass entities such as uterine rupture, dehiscence, sacculation or diverticulum. There are only a few reported cases of uterine fundal defects where the pregnancy continues into the third trimester. The following case describes the prenatal imaging diagnosis and subsequent clinical management of a large fundal uterine defect in the third trimester of pregnancy.
Hunter
Tamara J
TJ
Obstetric Clinical Care Unit, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth, WA, Australia. tamara.hunter@health.wa.gov.au
Maouris
Panos
P
Dickinson
Jan E
JE
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011247:Pregnancy; D013529:Surgical Wound Dehiscence / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal; D014599:Uterus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery