Trisomy 18

Joan Acosta Diez, MD

Unitat de Medicina Materno Fetal, Hospital de l"Esperit Sat, Santa Coloma de Gramnet, Spain

Case report 1: This is a fetus at 27 weeks with a strawberry-shaped skull, dilatation of the third ventricle, ventricular septal defect and an enlargement of the cistern magna. The amniocentesis confirmed the trisomy 18.

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