Abstract | OBJECTIVE: To review our cases of fetal cystic hygroma and to examine the prognostic factors with the goal of establishing criteria for the intrauterine treatment for cystic hygroma. PATIENTS AND METHODS: RESULTS: The fetuses without any of the prognostic factors listed above showed a good prognosis throughout the fetal and neonatal periods. However, in this group, 2 infants with large tumors died of hemorrhage from the tumor at 6 months and 3 years of age, respectively. Cases with hydrops fetalis without chromosomal abnormalities or structural anomalies (5 cases) resulted in either intrauterine fetal death (IUFD, 2 cases) or early perinatal neonatal death (early PND, 3 cases). The cause of early PND was circulatory failure. Most of the hydrops cases with either a chromosomal abnormality or structural anomaly resulted in IUFD before 22 weeks of gestation. The size of the cyst decreased in 1 of 2 cases treated in utero. CONCLUSIONS:
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Authors | K Ogita, S Suita, T Taguchi, T Yamanouchi, K Masumoto, K Tsukimori, H Nakano |
Journal | Fetal diagnosis and therapy
(Fetal Diagn Ther)
2001 Mar-Apr
Vol. 16
Issue 2
Pg. 105-10
ISSN: 1015-3837 [Print] Switzerland |
PMID | 11173958
(Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article, Review)
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Chemical References |
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Topics |
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Congenital Abnormalities
- Fatal Outcome
- Female
- Fetal Death
(etiology)
- Fetal Diseases
(therapy)
- Humans
- Hydrops Fetalis
(complications)
- Infant, Newborn
- Lymphangioma, Cystic
(complications, genetics, therapy)
- Pregnancy
- Prognosis
- Sclerosing Solutions
(therapeutic use)
- Sclerotherapy
- Treatment Outcome
- Ultrasonography, Prenatal
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