2006-04-03-11 Holoprosencephaly © Montilla www.thefetus.net/
Holoprosencephaly, alobar
Lenin Montilla, MD
Merida, Venezuela
This is a 29-year-old woman, G2P1, at 16 weeks and 6 days of gestation. The scan revealed a fetus with alobar holoprosencephaly. It shows the following features: - Single ventricle
- Absence of midline structures
- Fused thalami
The dissection: the skull...
The brain (the "pancake" form)
Opening of the single ventricle:
