title: Congenital abdominal aortic aneurysm with porencephaly: a case report.
abstract: An abdominal aortic aneurysm is a rare disease in the paediatric population and is mainly caused by intrauterine infection, connective tissue diseases, such as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and Marfan's syndrome, and iatrogenic trauma due to umbilical artery catheterization. Although several cases have been reported in the English literature, they were rarely diagnosed prenatally. Vascular obstruction in utero is also believed to be the major cause of porencephaly. Recently, gene mutations have been reported as the cause of both the above-mentioned diseases. We present a prenatally diagnosed case of congenital abdominal aortic aneurysm with porencephaly.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. tunematu @ med.kyushu-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Ryosuke
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tsunematsu
authors.forename: Tomoko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shinozaki
authors.forename: Kotaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fukushima
authors.forename: Yasuo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yumoto
authors.forename: Nobuhiro
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hidaka
authors.forename: Seiichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Morokuma
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fujita
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hojo
authors.forename: Norio
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wake
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000150:complications / Q000151:congenital / Q000175:diagnosis*; D054022:Cerebrum / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011859:Radiography; D014463:Ultrasonography