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Isolated ‘sign of the horns’: A simple, pathognomonic, prenatal sonographic marker of Crisponi syndrome
Author(s) -
Dessì Angelica,
Fanos Vassilios,
Crisponi Giangiorgio,
Frau Alessandro,
Ottonello Giovanni
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1447-0756
pISSN - 1341-8076
DOI - 10.1111/j.1447-0756.2011.01741.x
Subject(s) - pathognomonic , medicine , sign (mathematics) , prenatal diagnosis , pregnancy , ultrasonography , fetus , radiology , pathology , disease , biology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , genetics
The case of a patient presenting with Crisponi syndrome recently hospitalized at our institution is described. During pregnancy a diagnosis of this syndrome was hypothesized following sonographic observation of the fetus with the hands showing ‘the sign of the horns’. Such a finding, if isolated, as in our case, may represent a simple, pathognomonic sonographic marker of Crisponi syndrome.