UDK: 618.33

NORMAL RANGE OF FETAL LATERAL VENTRICLE WIDTH IN THE SECOND TRIMESTER OF PREGNANCY

O. I. Kozlova, M. V. Medvedev

Институт повышения квалификации Федерального медико-биологического агентства России, Москва

Abstract

Fetal brain was retrospectively evaluated in normal fetuses at 18—27 weeks of gestation. The multiplanar mode was used to evaluate the axial transthalamic plane. The width of the lateral ventricles was found to be increasing during the second semester. The elaborated normal reference range of fetal width of lateral ventricles can be used for evaluating fetal brain development when performing an ultrasound examination of the fetus in the second trimester of pregnancy.

Keywords

fetus, second-trimester screening, width of the lateral ventricles, ultrasound examination.

Contacts

Козлова Олеся Ивановна — к. м. н., ассистент кафедры ультразвуковой и пренатальной диагностики ФГОУ ДПО «Институт повышения квалификации ФМБА РФ», е-mail: olesya_poberii@mail.ru