Prenatal ultrasonographic detection of ophthalmic diseases

J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus. 2012 May 22:49 Online:e26-9. doi: 10.3928/01913913-20120515-02.

Abstract

Four patients with prenatal sonographic findings suggestive of ophthalmic pathology were detected in utero. The definitive diagnoses of infantile fibrosarcoma, persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous/persistent fetal vasculature, Fraser syndrome, and microphthalmia with coloboma and retrobulbar cyst were made postnatally. High-resolution intrauterine sonograms expedited ophthalmic referral and influenced prenatal planning.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abortion, Therapeutic
  • Adult
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
  • Cataract / congenital
  • Cataract / diagnostic imaging
  • Cataract / embryology
  • Coloboma / diagnosis
  • Eye Abnormalities / diagnostic imaging*
  • Eye Evisceration
  • Female
  • Fibrosarcoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Fibrosarcoma / surgery
  • Gestational Age
  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Microphthalmos / diagnosis
  • Orbit / abnormalities
  • Orbital Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Orbital Neoplasms / surgery
  • Persistent Hyperplastic Primary Vitreous / diagnostic imaging
  • Persistent Hyperplastic Primary Vitreous / embryology
  • Persistent Hyperplastic Primary Vitreous / surgery
  • Ultrasonography, Prenatal*
  • Vitrectomy
  • Young Adult