Prenatal Diagnosis of Thoracoschisis and Review of Literature

Table 1

Reported cases of thoracoschisis.

	Reference	Gender	Defect location	Content	Associated anomalies	Diagnosis
(1)	Davies et al., 1977 [3]	Female	Left third intercostal	Left liver lobe, stomach, transverse colon	No left forearm, syndactyly, dextrocardia	Postnatal
(2)	Bamforth et al., 1992 [4]	Female	Left sixth rib	Left liver lobe	Left Poland anomaly, scapula hypoplastic, no humerus, no ulna, no radius, dextrocardia	Postnatal
(3)	Derbent and Balci, 2001 [5]	Female	Right second to fourth rib	Liver intestine	LBWC, other deformations not able to be defined
(4)	Biri et al., 2006 [6]	Female	Left (unspecified location)	Left liver lobe	Left forearm agenesis, right arm-hand agenesis	Postnatal
(5)	Karaman et al., 2011 [7]	Male	Left eighth intercostal	Liver, transverse colon, omentum	None	Postnatal
(6)	Bhattacharyya et al., 2012 [8]	Female	Right (absence of ribs)?	Riedel liver lobe, stomach, small intestine	Agenesis of the right upper limb, right upper quadrant abdominal wall defect
(7)	Eck et al., 2015 [9]	Male	Right fifth–eight ribs	Liver, intestine, omentum	Right fourth digit abnormality	Postnatal
(8)	McKay et al., 2015 [10]	Female	Left eighth intercostal	Riedel liver lobe, omentum	Positional deformity of left hand & palmar contractures of the fingers	Postnatal
(9)	Seleim et al., 2015 [11]	Male	Left 4th intercostal	Riedel liver lobe, stomach, intestine	None	Postnatal
(10)	Travers et al., 2016 [12]	Female	Left rib aplasia (unspecified location)	Mesenchymal hamartoma	None	Postnatal
(11)	de Grijs et al., 2017 [13]	Female	Left of fourth–sixth ribs	Liver, stomach, transverse colon	None	Antenatal
(12)	Vujovic et al., 2017 [14]	Female	Right first intercostal	Riedel liver lobe	Hypoplasia of the right arm and incomplete hand duplication	Postnatal
(13)	Current case	Male	Left third and fourth ribs	Left liver lobe, stomach, spleen, intestine	Radial aplasia, unilateral polydactyly and syndactyly	Antenatal

prenatally as gastroschisis.