Fetal Radiology

As sonography has become a routine component of prenatal care, many intrinsic errors of skeletal development are diagnosed prenatally. This book is designed to assist in postnatal diagnosis of errors detected in fetal radiographic studies.

Intrinsic errors of skeletal development are individually rare but of clinical importance because of their overall frequency and their impact on a patient's life. Sonography has become a routine component of prenatal care, and many of these disorders are diagnosed prenatally. Postnatally, the prenatal diagnosis has to be verified. To this end, fetal radiography is an effective, simple and economic way to establish a diagnosis or to narrow the number of diagnostic possibilities sufficiently to enable pathological, biochemical or molecular studies to be used in the quest for a specific diagnosis. Equally important, a correct diagnosis is required for correct prognostication and parental counseling. This book has been written to assist in the postnatal diagnosis of fetal errors of skeletal development.

Heavily illustrated atlas covers entire development from week 1 through birth Enables the radiologist or obstetrician to monitor progress, and the pathologist to see what went wrong Cross-disciplinary expertise; authors are a leading pediatric radiologist, a geneticist, and an expert in abnormal pediatric skeletal development

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Development of the normal fetal skeleton.- Differential diagnosis of single skeletal defects: Limbs. Spine. Ventral body wall defects.- The osteochondrodysplasias: Skeletal dysplasias (SDs) with prominent shortness of the tubular bones.- SDs with congenital bowing and normal bone density.- SDs with decreased bone density, with or without bowing.- SDs with slender bones. SDs with thick bones.- SDs with short ribs, with or without polydactyly.- Chondrodysplasia punctata group.- SDs with prominent involvement of the humeri or clavicles. Dysplasias with prominent involvement of the mesial and acral skeleton.- SDs with increased bone density.