Advanced imaging technologies such as transvaginal sonography, 3D technology, and MRIs have opened up a new era in the prenatal diagnosis and management of central nervous system (CNS) abnormalities. An Atlas of Fetal Central Nervous System Disease: Diagnosis and Management contains over 100 images of congenital CNS anomalies and brain injuries in utero. It covers how to use advanced neuroimaging technologies for accurate CNS diagnosis and obstetrical management, provides detailed illustrations of the procedures for postnatal neurosurgical management, and helps answer questions about the timing of brain insult in utero and in cerebral palsy.
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Background and Roles of Fetal CNS Diagnosis and Management: Background of fetal CNS assessment; Role of fetal CNS diagnosis CNS Development and Anatomy: CNS development; Basic knowledge of brain anatomy for neuroimaging Technologies, Techniques of Fetal Neuroimaging Diagnosis: Transabdominal sonography; Transvaginal sonography; Three-dimensional ultrasound; Ultrasonic tissue characterization with gray level histogram width (GLHW); Magnetic resonance imaging Imaging of Normal Fetal Central Nervous System: Cranial bone; Intracranial structure; Vertebra and spine; Brain circulation; Volume calculation; Volume contrast images by 4D technology; MR imaging; Hydrocephalus, Ventriculomegaly: Prenatal assessment of enlarged ventricles; Neurosurgical management of hydrocephalus Congenital Brain Anomalies: Dysraphism; Spina bifida; Cranium bifidum; Cerebral anomalies; Holoprosencephaly; Agenesis, hypogenesis of the corpus callosum; Absent septum pellucidum; Lissencephaly; Schizencephaly; Posterior fossa anomalies; Dandy Walker malformation, variant, Megacisterna Magna; Chiari malformation; Rhombencephalosynapsis; Cranial bone anomalies; Craniosynostosis; Others; Vein of Galen Aneurysm; Arachnoid cyst; Choroid plexus cysts Acquired Brain Abnormalities in Utero: Subependymal pseudocysts, hemorrhage; Intracranial hemorrhage; Porencephaly; Hydranencephaly; Subdural hemorrhage; Polymicrogyria (postmigrational polymicrogyria); Fetal PVL; Fetal PVE; Brain tumors
