Prenatal detection of hydrolethalus syndrome

1 July 1983

journal article
research article
Published by Wiley in Prenatal Diagnosis

Vol. 3 (3) , 219-224
https://doi.org/10.1002/pd.1970030306

Abstract

The prenatal diagnosis of hydrolethalus syndrome is presented on the basis of seven cases. The results demonstrate the primary importance of ultrasonography in the evaluation of this type of malformation. Already in early pregnancy, the intracranial abnormalities and the accelerated growth rate of the fetal head are demonstrable by ultrasound more easily than in ordinary ‘simple’ hydrocephalus. Diagnostic amnioncentesis in early pregnancy proved to be useless because alpha-feto-protein levels and chromosomal status were normal.

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