Fetal Cerebellar Vermis Assessment by MRI. What Does It Add? - Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

OJOG > Vol.9 No.9, September 2019

Fetal Cerebellar Vermis Assessment by MRI. What Does It Add? ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ojog.2019.99125 708 Downloads 2,426 Views Citations

Author(s)

Sarah M. Ragaee¹, Mohamed Aboul-Fotouh Mourad¹, Soha Talaat Hamed², Ahmed M. Abbas^3*

Affiliation(s)

¹Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Minia, Egypt.
²Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
³Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

ABSTRACT

Background: Posterior fossa anomalies (PFAs) are considered one of the commonest brain anomalies identified by the fetal imaging techniques. The current study aims to estimate the significance of cerebellar vermis assessment by fetal MRI in fetal brain malformations. Patients and Methods: The study was conducted at a tertiary University hospital in Upper Egypt. Data were gathered prospectively from sixty pregnant women with sonographically diagnosed fetal brain malformations referred for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) between April 2015 and May 2019 followed by postpartum neonatal MRI brain examination for non-terminated and live birth cases. Results: Of the sixty fetuses with brain malformations, additional cerebellar vermis findings were seen on MRI in 10 cases (16.6%). Fetal MRI sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values were 100% that were in correlation with those of prenatal ultrasound turned out to be significantly higher. Conclusion: This study recommends fetal MRI for cerebellar vermis assessment in fetal brain malformations to guide the clinical management.

KEYWORDS

Fetal MRI, Cerebellar Vermis, Prenatal Ultrasound, Vermian Abnormali-ties, Posterior Fossa Anomalies

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Ragaee, S. , Mourad, M. , Hamed, S. and Abbas, A. (2019) Fetal Cerebellar Vermis Assessment by MRI. What Does It Add?. Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 9, 1290-1303. doi: 10.4236/ojog.2019.99125.

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