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Prenatal diagnosis of fetal brain ventricle dilatation
Author(s) -
JÖRGENSEN CONNIE,
INGEMARSSON INGEMAR,
SVENNINGSEN NILS W.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1983.tb08902.x
Subject(s) - medicine , fetus , ultrasound , gestation , ventricle , pregnancy , prenatal diagnosis , obstetrics , lateral ventricles , cerebral ventricle , prospective cohort study , radiology , cardiology , anatomy , genetics , biology
Summary. In a 13 month prospective screening programme 3120 pregnant women were examined with diagnostic ultrasound at 17 and 32 weeks gestation; five fetuses (0–16%) were found with dilatation of brain ventricles. Early diagnosis was made in one patient resulting in legal termination of the pregnancy. The four other patients were diagnosed at the second ultrasound examination.