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This comprehensive text correlates pre- and post-natal images with the type of treatment appropriate to structural anomalies of the different organ systems. Numerous examples from each organ system are included and the material is clinically oriented. Fetal Anomalies: Ultrasound Diagnosis and Postnatal Management reviews such topics as:Externally visible defectsSkeletal dysplasiaCentral nervous, gastrointestinal, urinary, and genital systemsUmbilical cord anomaliesAbnormalities specific to multiple pregnanciesAbnormalities of amniotic fluid volumeAbnormalities that elude prenatal detection

Incorporating the pictorial strengths of an atlas with the didactic utility of a reference work, Fetal Anomalies: Ultrasound Diagnosis and Postnatal Management is a unique book bridging various specialties that comprise maternal-fetal medicine, such as obstetrics, diagnostic imaging, neonatology, perinatology, surgery, and urology.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Abbreviations
1 The First Trimester of Pregnancy 1
2 The 10- to 14-Week Scan 15
3 Detecting of Trisomies 21 and 18 21
4 The Fetal Face and Neck 31
4A Evaluation of the Fetal Face and Neck 31
4B Correlative Presurgical and Postsurgical Treatment of Fetal Face and Neck Abnormalities 43
5 The Fetal Central Nervous System 47
5A The Head 47
5B The Spine 65
5C Spina Bifida: Urologic Aspects 70
5D Spina Bifida: Orthopaedic Aspects 75
6 The Fetal Chest and Abdomen 81
7 The Fetal Urinary Tract 93
8 Diagnosis of Fetal Structural Genital Anomalies 163
9 Polycystic Kidney Disease and Renal Transplantation 169
10 The Fetal Heart 177
11 Skeletal Dysplasias and Musculo-Skeletal Abnormalities 247
12 Pediatric Anesthesia 271
Index 275