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- Title
Assessment of fetal midbrain and hindbrain in mid-sagittal cranial plane by three-dimensional multiplanar sonography. Part 2: application of nomograms to fetuses with posterior fossa malformations.
- Authors
Leibovitz, Z.; Shkolnik, C.; Haratz, K. Krajden; Malinger, G.; Shapiro, I.; Lerman‐Sagie, T.
- Abstract
ABSTRACT Objectives To apply fetal midbrain ( MB) and hindbrain ( HB) nomograms, developed using three-dimensional multiplanar sonographic reconstruction ( 3D-MPR) in the mid-sagittal cranial plane, to fetuses with known posterior fossa malformations. Methods In this retrospective study we examined sonographic volumes obtained by sagittal acquisition in 43 fetuses diagnosed with posterior fossa abnormalities and evaluated in the mid-sagittal cranial plane, using 3D-MPR, the following: MB parameters tectal length ( TL) and anteroposterior midbrain diameter ( APMD), and HB parameters anteroposterior pons diameter ( APPD), superoinferior vermian diameter ( SIVD) and anteroposterior vermian diameter ( APVD). Fetuses were grouped, according to malformation, into eight categories: cobblestone malformation complex ( CMC, n = 3), Chiari- II malformation (C- II, n = 7), pontocerebellar hypoplasia ( PCH, n = 2), rhombencephalosynapsis ( RES, n = 4), Dandy-Walker malformation ( n = 8), vermian dysgenesis ( VD, n = 7), persistent Blake's pouch cyst ( n = 6) and megacisterna magna ( n = 6). In each case and for each subgroup, the MB-HB biometric parameters and their z-scores were evaluated with reference to our new nomograms. Results The new MB-HB nomograms were able to identify the brainstem and vermian anomalies and differentiate fetuses with MB-HB malformations from those with isolated enlarged posterior fossa cerebrospinal fluid spaces. Use of the nomograms enabled detection of an elongated tectum in fetuses with CMC, C- II and RES, and a flattened pontine belly in cases of CMC, PCH and VD. In the fetuses with VD, the nomograms enabled division into three distinctive groups: (1) those with small SIVD and APVD, (2) those with normal SIVD but small APVD, and (3) those with small SIVD but normal APVD. Conclusions Application of our new reference data, that for the first time include the MB, enables accurate diagnosis of brain malformations affecting the MB and HB and makes possible novel characterization of previously described features of posterior fossa anomalies. Copyright © 2014 ISUOG. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Subjects
ULTRASONIC imaging of fetal brain abnormalities; MESENCEPHALON; RHOMBENCEPHALON; PONS Varolii; ULTRASONIC imaging; MEDICAL imaging systems; THREE-dimensional imaging
- Publication
Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2014, Vol 44, Issue 5, p581
- ISSN
0960-7692
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/uog.13312