The Normal and Pathological Fetal Brain Ultrasonographic Features
This book provides assistance in preparing for and conducting screening or diagnostic ultrasound examinations of the fetal brain in all stages of pregnancy. Readers are provided with: abundantly illustrated descriptions of studies conducted on normal brai
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The Normal and Pathological Fetal Brain
Jean-Philippe Bault • Laurence Loeuillet
The Normal and Pathological Fetal Brain Ultrasonographic Features
Jean-Philippe Bault Centre d'échographie Ambroise Paré Les Mureaux France
Laurence Loeuillet Hôpital Cochin Paris France
ISBN 978-3-319-19970-2 ISBN 978-3-319-19971-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-19971-9
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Foreword
Nothing could interest me more than this new Atlas of normal and pathological fetal brain ultrasound images prepared by Jean-Philippe Bault and Laurence Loeuillet with assistance from Guillaume Benoist. Its high-resolution images provide not only a “map” of the developing brain but also close-ups of its various “territories.” In my younger days as a pediatrician and embryologist, focused on the problems of developmental anomalies, the fetal brain was terra incognita! Prenatal brain imaging was in its infancy, and neuropathological examinations were conducted only rarely, for research purposes only. With guidance from Claudie Larroche, who was educated in neuropathology at Harvard, and inspired by her comprehensive knowledge of premature infants, we endeavored to undertake a systematic analysis of the fetal brain. Thousands of examinations later, we collated the results of this pioneering work on the dynamics of brain development and the significance of its malformations – including a special focus on anatomical pathology-ultrasonic correlations – in what today have become a number of classic books: The Pathology of the Developing Human Nervous System, S Duckett (ed) Lea & Febiger, 1994; Textbook of fetal and perinatal pathology, Vol. 2, Wigglesworth JS and Singer DB (eds),
