Fetal scalp cyst or small meningocele: Differential diagnosis with three-dimensional ultrasound

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-80

  Sepulveda, Waldo ^a,c   Wong, Amy E ^a   Sepulveda, Sergio ^b   Corral, Edgardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

^c Fetal Medicine Center   (Chile)

Author keywords

Cephalocele; Fetal ultrasound; Neural tube defect; Scalp cyst; Three dimensional ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENCEPHALOCELE; EPIDERMOID CYST; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFANT; MENINGOCELE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; CYSTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENINGOCELE; SCALP; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 80051794913     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: 14219964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000322918     Document Type: Article

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