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Pooh (obstetrics and maternal fetal management, National Kagawa Children's Hospital, Japan) explains the latest neuroimaging technologies and their use in diagnosis of central nervous system (CNS) diseases in utero and gives examples and guidelines for obstetric and postnatal neurosurgical management of fetal CNS diseases. After background on the role of the fetal CNS and the development and anatomy of the nervous system, there are chapters on techniques of fetal neuroimaging diagnosis, imaging of the normal fetal CNS, hydrocephalus and ventriculomegaly, congenital brain anomalies, and acquired brain abnormalities in vivo. Color and b&w photos and medical images are included.

Table of Contents:

List of image contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Background and role of fetal central nervous system: diagnosis and management 1
2 Central nervous system development and anatomy 5
3 Technologies and techniques of fetal neuroimaging diagnosis 13
4 Imaging of the normal fetal central nervous system 23
5 Hydrocephalus and ventriculomegaly 43
6 Congenital brain anomalies 65
7 Acquired brain abnormalities in utero 119
Index 139