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Abnormal leptomeninges and vessels causing fetal hydrocephalus: Diagnosis of hydrocephalus at 19 weeks gestation by ultrasound

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Hydrocephalus in a 19-week gestation fetus was due to irregular destruction of the periphery of brain stem and cerebellum by an unusual abnormality of leptomeninges and leptomeningeal vessels which obstructed cerebrospinal fluid flow in the posterior fossa. The cause is unknown.

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  1. Dept. of Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital and University of British Columbia, V5Z 1M9, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Margaret G. Norman

  2. Dept. of Radiology, Burnaby General Hospital, Burnaby, BC, Canada

    Lynette A. Thurber

  3. Dept. of Obstetrics, Burnaby General Hospital, Burnaby, BC, Canada

    H. E. Woolley

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  1. Margaret G. Norman
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  2. Lynette A. Thurber
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  3. H. E. Woolley
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Presented in part as Diagnostic Case 16, Canadian Association of Neuropathologists, Twentieth Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, Sept. 27, 1980

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Norman, M.G., Thurber, L.A. & Woolley, H.E. Abnormal leptomeninges and vessels causing fetal hydrocephalus: Diagnosis of hydrocephalus at 19 weeks gestation by ultrasound. Acta Neuropathol 54, 283–285 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00697001

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