Prenatal 2D and 3D ultrasound diagnosis of diprosopus: Case report with post-mortem magnetic resonance images (MRI) and review of the literature

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 992-994

  Maruotti, Giuseppe Maria ^a   Paladini, Dario ^a   Napolitano, Raffaele ^a   Mazzarelli, Laura Letizia ^a   Russo, Tiziana ^a   Quarantelli, Mario ^a   D'Armiento, Maria Rosaria ^a   Martinelli, Pasquale ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

2D 3D ultrasonography; Diprosopus; Magnetic resonance; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJOINED TWINS; CRYPTORCHISM; DIPROSOPUS; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HUMAN; MALE; MICROGNATHIA; MICROPENIS; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARENT COUNSELING; PES EQUINOVARUS; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCOLIOSIS; SINGLE UMBILICAL ARTERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; STILLBIRTH; TWINS; TWINS, CONJOINED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 70349649213     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.2321     Document Type: Article

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