Dağlar, Korkut Zekai Tahir Burak Women s Health Education and Research Hospital - Department of Perinatology, Turkey , Kırbaş, Ayşe Zekai Tahir Burak Women s Health Education and Research Hospital - Department of Perinatology, Turkey , Biberoğlu, Ebru Zekai Tahir Burak Women s Health Education and Research Hospital - Department of Perinatology, Turkey , Danışman, Nuri Zekai Tahir Burak Women s Health Education and Research Hospital - Department of Perinatology, Turkey

Prenatal diagnosis of arachnoid cyst

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Arachnoid cysts are rare, usually benign, space-occupying central nervous system lesion. They are the results of an accumulation of cerebrospinal-like fluid between the cerebral meninges and diagnosed prenatally as a unilocular, simple, echolucent area within the fetal head. They may be primary (congenital) (maldevelopment of the meninges) or secondary (acquired) (result of infection trauma, or hemorrhage). The primary ones typically don t communicate with the subarachnoid space whereas acquired forms usually communicate. In recent years, with the development of radiological techniques, the clinical detectability of arachnoid cysts seems to have increased. We report a case of primary arachnoid cyst that were diagnosed prenatally by using ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging .

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Fetal brain , ultrasonography , magnetic resonance imaging

Cukurova Medical Journal

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