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Murine Fetal Echocardiography
Published on: February 15, 2013
Fetal brain death and Dandy-Walker malformation
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
Prenatal Diagnosis
|August 19, 1999
The diagnosis of brain death by Doppler ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging is reported in a fetus at 23 weeks' gestation. This is believed to be the first instance in which brain death has been shown in a premature fetus with a brain-stem anomaly.
The diagnosis of brain death by Doppler ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging is reported in a fetus at 23 weeks' gestation. This is believed to be the first instance in which brain death has been shown in a premature fetus with a brain-stem anomaly.

