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  • Title: Fetal neurenteric cyst causing hydrops: case report and review of the literature.
    Author: Wilkinson CC, Albanese CT, Jennings RW, Feldstein VA, Goldberg JD, Baehner FL, Farrell JA, Peacock WJ, Harrison MR.
    Journal: Prenat Diagn; 1999 Feb; 19(2):118-21. PubMed ID: 10215067.
    Abstract:
    Routine prenatal ultrasound revealed a unilocular cystic mass associated with upper thoracic hemivertebrae that grew to 6 cm at 28 weeks and was associated with hydrops. A thoraco-amniotic shunt decompressed the cyst and resolved the hydrops, but the shunt occluded 17 days later. Preterm labour led to vaginal delivery at 31 2/7 weeks. Postnatally, the cyst was decompressed by thoracentesis due to respiratory distress. It was resected on day four of life. Severe tracheobronchomalacia was present post-operatively, presumably due to prenatal mass effect of the cyst. At one year of age, the child has recovered completely without adverse respiratory or neurological sequelae.
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