Case of the Week # 53

Alessandro Giuffrida, MD Saveria Cantone, MD Fabiola Galvani, MD Claudio Giorlandino, MD.

June 22-July 5, 2001

Artemisia, Rome

This third trimester patient was scanned transvaginally. There is a 1 MB video-clip one parasagittal image

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and a antero-posterior sequence of coronal views

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And one view of the post-delivery CT

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What is (are) the finding(s) and diagnosis ?

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This third trimester patient was scanned transvaginally. There is a 1 MB video-clip one parasagittal image

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and a antero-posterior sequence of coronal views

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And one view of the post-delivery CT

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The finding was a necrose of the basal ganglia consistent with Striatal necrosis, bilateral

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