Antenatal intestinal vascular accident with subsequent small bowel atresia: case report

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Abstract
A woman was referred at 2.5 weeks' gestation with decreased fetal movements. Ultrasound revealed a large solid fetal abdominal mass and gross fetal ascites. Amniocentesis and viral titers were normal. On subsequent ultrasound examinations, the mass and ascites slowly disappeared, but a small bowel obstruction developed.Spontaneous labor occurred at 3.5 weeks and the child was born with a distended abdomen. At laparotomy there was type 3 jejunal atresia, indicating that the fetal mass and ascites were secondary to this antenatal small bowel iscbemia. Copyright © 1997 International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

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