Fetal Radiology A Diagnostic Atlas /

• Main Authors: Schumacher, Reinhard (Author), Seaver, Laurie H. (Author), Spranger, Jürgen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Edition: 2nd Edition.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Obstetrics.; Radiology.; Pediatrics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Diagnostic Radiology.; Obstetrics/Perinatology.

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 p...

Table of Contents:

• 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.