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Comments about "Fetal head"From: Joseph Allen Worrall Jr. (jworrall@alaska.net)Fri Mar 13 12:04:05 1998
I will refer to the images as they are put up. The image at the top of the bunch, labeled Posterior fossa: That was the first image I looked at, and I thought the suspected mass was the echogenic area at the lateral aspect of the dependant cerebellar lobe. I guess that is just slight angulation on the axial view. The next two side-by-side images appear to be identical to me. I believe the suspected mass is on the upper side, and is being measured in the duel images at the bottom of the stack. After having the benefit of Terry's evaluation, I would say that probably is the thalamus, again an oblique (meaning partially coronal) view. But if I were scanning this patient, and saw that, and could not convince myself by angling the transducer that it was the thalamus, I would be concerned, certainly. In the dependant lateral ventricle the choroid dangles, and I understand the measurement was 11 mm. It certainly looks like very mild enlargement. Several years ago at the AIUM meeting, Dr. Bruce Hall (author of the BABE software program, which I use, and that is why I remember this) presented a series of cases of babies that turned out perfectly normal, but had atrium measurements slightly over 10 mm. I thought I was so clever to take each image as it was sent by Terry, copy it to a Zip disk, then open Paint Shop Pro and open each image on the work space so I could view all images at once. By the time I had done that, Kevin or Bruce had all images up, with improved contrast. Janet, thanks for going to all the trouble of scanning these and presenting them. I will be interested in what others think. Allen Worrall
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