Recent reports suggest that absence or hypoplasia of the fetal nasal bone, in both the first and second trimesters of pregnancy, is a highly sensitive and specific marker of trisomy 21 [13, 14]. Microtraumas and deformities of the nose and different structures of the face skull may be a ...
Diffuse gliomas, which account for the majority of malignant brain tumors in adults, comprise astrocytoma, oligodendroglioma, and glioblastoma1,2. The prognosis of diffuse gliomas varies, with median survival being 60–119 months in oligodendroglioma, 18–36 months in astrocytoma, and 8 months in gl...
demonstrated how valuable first-trimester US scanning can be performed by incorporating a detailed fetal anomaly scan into first-trimester screening algorithms, which is conducive to an improvement in the detection of trisomy 18 and 13, triploidies, and Turner syndrome [158,159]. Sun et al. ...