Diagnostic echographique de l'acranie: Malformation embryologique rare

ABSTRACT

The authors reports a case of acrania diagnosed on antenatal period in a routine morphologic ultrosonography at 19 weeks of intra uterine gestation on a 20-year-old patient, gravida 1, para 0. Acrania associafed with exencephly is a rare and lethal maltormation characterized by a defect of developpement of the flat bones of the scalp whereos cerebral tissue is present often abnormal. Ultraisonography had allowed to find besides the cerebral malformation, spinal and visceral fetal molformations as well as cord abnormality that included only two vessels