Cephalocele, anterior

Ha To Nguyen, MD

Director of Imaging Diagnosis Department, Maternal Tudu Hospital, 284 Cong Quynh St Dist 1, Hochimin City, Vietnam.

Case report

The images below show a case of anterior cephalocele and radial aplasia diagnosed during second trimester ultrasound.

Images 1, 2: The images show sagittal and coronal scan of the fetal head with the cephalocele.

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Images 3, 4: The images show the forearm with radial aplasia.

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Images 5, 6: The images show 3D imagination of the fetal head with an anterior cephalocele.

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Images 7, 8: Postnatal pathological specimens showing the fetus with the cephalocele and radial ray aplasia. 

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Images 9, 10: The video shows sagittal and coronal scan of the fetal head with the cephalocele.

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