... appear healthy at birth, various types of congenital malformations have been reported, of which urinary tract anomalies are the most frequent. We report on 2 newborns with 47,XXX and congenital cardiac defects, one of whom had duodenal atresia and the other an occipital encephalocele. This expands...

... in the lung and adrenal medullary hyperplasia. Two cases were diagnosed in the early second trimester by ultrasound scanning. Meroanencephaly may be mistaken for encephalocele both at the bedside exam and sonographically, and should be included in the differential for protruding anterior cranial masses. 7...

...Kazuhisa Kojima; Yoshikatsu Suzuki; Shinichi Miyajima; Mitsuyo Tanemura; Nobuyuki Yamaguchi; Yukihiko Ueda; Kaoru Suzumori We report a case of an encephalocele in a dizygotic twin pregnancy, following ovulatory induction. In the involved fetus, an abnormal shadow like an encapsulated-solid tumor...

...% of the cases were prenatally diagnosed and 48% were terminated. Anencephaly was more likely to be prenatally diagnosed and electively terminated than spina bifida or encephalocele. Other factors such as maternal age, race/ethnicity, place of residence, and elevated maternal serum α-fetoprotein influenced...

...Shunji Suzuki; Yoshio Yoneyama; Rintaro Sawa; Toshiya Sinagawa; Takashi Hayashi; Tsutomu Araki We present a case of amniotic band syndrome leading to encephalocele in one triplet. In this case, discordance in fetal growth was observed at 9 weeks’ gestation, and the amniotic membrane...