2006-06-20-10 Cystic hygroma © Sanchez www.thefetus.net/

Cystic hygroma

Marcos Antonio Velasco Sanchez, MD, Joel Ruiz Habana, MD

Hospital General de Acapulco, Pinotepa Nacional, Universidad Autonoma Benito Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico

This is a 20-year-old woman with a scan performed at 13 weeks and 2 days. The ultrasounds findings were:

• septated cystic hygroma
• pleural effusion
• hydrothorax
• suspicion of a cardiac defect
• ascites
• edema