Abdominal, Pelvic and Retroperitoneal Abnormalities, Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy of |

Figure 7 : Body stalk anomaly. A, Sonogram shows a short umbilical cord with the anterior fetal abdomen plastered to the placenta. B, Larger field of view coronal SSFSE T2-weighted MR image shows a normal-appearing fetal brain and upper extremities. There is a major abdominal wall defect, kyphoscoliosis, and severe hydronephrosis, with the herniated anterior abdominal contents (arrow) adherent to the placenta.
The failure of infolding and fusion of the trilaminar embryonic disk results in extrusion of abdominal or thoracic contents or both. Cephalic fold defects result in ectopia cordis or pentalogy of Cantrell, which includes ectopia cordis, omphalocele, ...
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