The purpose of prenatal diagnosis tests is insisting of diagnosis of neonatal disorders, preparing a range of informed choices and making couples at risk to be ready for having children with genetic disorders as well. The aim of this article is to investigate all of the tests in order to determine the best one which has the lowest risk and the highest sensitivity. Screening tests (maternal bloo...

Background: Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) is a frequent prenatal problem that affects the women of all ages. AUB condition in which vaginal occur absence pregnancy. The most common and easily available imaging procedure ultrasonography. Our study aimed to investigate correlation between sonographic findings histopathological examination hysterectomy specimens perimenopausal with AUB. Study de...

A25-year-old woman was referred at 31 weeks’ gestation for prenatal echocardiography because routine obstetrical sonography had detected a cardiac malformation. Pregnancy to that point had been normal. Four-chamber and great-vessel views allowed the diagnosis of truncus arteriosus with an abnormal dilatation of the pulmonary tree (Figure 1 and Movie I). An in situ hybridization study performed ...

Most cases of isolated nonduodenal bowel atresia are thought to be due to ischemic events from hypotension, vascular accident, volvulus, intussusception and cocaine. We present a case of isolated ileal atresia suggested using results of prenatal sonography which showed multiple markedly dilated fluid-filled intestinal loops with changeable shapes and positions secondary to active peristalsis. P...

The incidence of adrenal hemorrhage in perinatal period is 0.2-0.5%. Prenatal diagnosis is rare. In most cases, hemorrhage is found during extensive diagnostic workup in a life-threatened or seriously sick newborn. We present a case of a female neonate born at term with suspected cystic intraabdominal mass already in the 32nd week of gestation. After delivery abdominal sonography was done and f...

Fetal behavioral patterns have been considered as indicators of fetal brain development. Numerous studies employing conventional 2D ultrasound have shown that normally developing fetuses and fetuses at risk exhibit different patterns of behavior. With the appearance and development of 4D ultrasound, fetal behavioral movements, and the full range of facial expressions can be observed. After stan...

Extensively distended and tortuous vessels on both sides of the uterus are rare incidental findings on transvaginal sonography in early pregnancy. A 31-year-old woman with a history of surgical repair for congenital intestinal stenosis was noted to have utero-ovarian varices on a transvaginal ultrasound examination during her first prenatal visit at 6 weeks' gestation. Magnetic resonance imagin...

A 2800 gram baby boy was born with a prenatal diagnosis of a choledochal cyst; he was admitted to NICU for further evaluation. Clinically he was jaundiced with a palpable abdominal mass in the right hypochondrium. Choledochal and duplication cysts were differential diagnoses. Ultra-sonography by an experienced sonographer or a CT scan is usually sufficient for diagnosis. Communicating duplicati...

Trisomy 3q is a very rarely reported chromosomal disorder. Duplication of part of the long arm of human chromosome 3 causes a distinct and severe syndrome that leads to multiple congenital abnormalities. A 27 year-old pregnant woman was admitted to our clinic at 17 weeks of gestation. Prenatal sonography identified a fetus with an omphalocele that contained the liver and bowel, mild ventriculom...

Although trisomy 18 (Edwards' syndrome) or the terminal deletion syndromes of 18p and 18q have been occasionally detected, pseudoisodicentric chromosome 18 is a very rare constitutional chromosomal abnormality. We describe a case of pseudoisodicentric chromosome 18q without mosaicism, which was confirmed from fetal cells in the amniotic fluid used for prenatal diagnosis of multiple congenital a...