Prenatal diagnosis of anasarca in an end-second trimester fetus presenting with sacrococcygeal teratoma by magnetic resonance imaging

Kai Nassenstein; Bernd Schweiger; Joerg Barkhausen

doi:10.1016/j.mri.2006.04.004

Prenatal diagnosis of anasarca in an end-second trimester fetus presenting with sacrococcygeal teratoma by magnetic resonance imaging

Magn Reson Imaging. 2006 Sep;24(7):977-8. doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2006.04.004. Epub 2006 May 23.

Authors

Kai Nassenstein¹, Bernd Schweiger, Joerg Barkhausen

Affiliation

¹ Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, D - 45122 Essen, Germany. [email protected]

PMID: 16916715
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2006.04.004

Abstract

Fetal hydrops is a known complication of sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) due to arteriovenous shunts within the tumor, which is clinically important and influence patients' prognosis. We present unique MRI morphological findings of a marked fetal anasarca in a case of an end-second trimester fetus presenting with SCT.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Female
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / diagnosis*
Pregnancy Trimester, Second
Prenatal Diagnosis
Sacrococcygeal Region*
Teratoma / diagnosis*