Main description:

In recent years, Fetal MR has grown continually in importance, and the brain has become the main focus of investigation. However, we lack established standards and a good knowledge of the normal MR appearance. To fill this gap is the purpose of the first part of this book, which is an MR atlas of the cerebral development of the fetus. The second part is dedicated to cerebral pathologies. It includes, for each condition, a summary of the fundamental data, the imaging findings (US and MR) in correlation with neurofetopathology and/or postnatal imaging, and a brief perspective of the prognosis.

Contents:

1 Techniques.- 2 Materials.- 3 Methodology.- 4 Results.- 5 Comments on the Results.- 6 Appendix.- 7 References.- 8 Pathology of the Midline.- 9 Abnormalities of Proliferation, Neuronal Migration and Cortical Organization.- 10 Intracranial Space-Occupying Lesions.- 11 Ventricular Dilatation.- 12 Abnormalities of the Posterior Cerebral Fossa.- 13 Antenatal Cerebral Pathologies of Infectious Origin.- 14 Abnormalities of the Fetal Cerebral Parenchyma: Ischaemic and Haemorrhagic Lesions.- 263.