CHRISMED Journal of Health and Research (Jan 2017)

Antenatally diagnosed alobar holoprosencephaly: A report of two cases

  • C R Srinivasa Babu,
  • Inampudi Vineel,
  • Arjun Prakash,
  • Y Ravi Kumar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/cjhr.cjhr_23_17
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 4
pp. 283 – 285

Abstract

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Holoprosencephaly is a complex developmental abnormality of the brain arising from the failure of cleavage of the prosencephalon. The condition termed “holoprosencephaly” includes cyclopia, cebocephaly, ethmocephaly, and median cleft. We present two cases of antenatally diagnosed alobar holoprosencephaly with multiple associations, which were confirmed after termination of pregnancy. One of them had a proboscis and a single midline eye. The other had multiple facial abnormalities such as hypotelorism, median cleft lip and palate, and preauricular skin tag.

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