Meningocele, lumbar, video-clip

Philippe Jeanty, MD, PhD Chaitali Shah, MD Cerine Jeanty

2004-06-16 Meningocele © Jeanty www.thefetus.net/


Tennessee Women"s Care, Nashville TN

This fetus is at 20 weeks and demonstrates the following features:            
• Mild hydrocephalus (lateral ventricles measure 12mm)
• Scalloped frontal horns
• Caudal cerebellar displacement into the posterior fossa (Arnold-Chiari malformation).
• Meningocele and spina bifida is seen at the level of the sacrum.

The following is a video clip demonstrating the abnormality.

 

The ultrasound image below shows the lumbar meningocele:

meningocele-lumbar1

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