Delayed Appearance of a Traumatic Fetal Intracranial Hemorrhage

Figure 1

Fetal heart rate and evolving ultrasound findings following fetal intracranial injury. (a) Fetal heart rate showed a normal baseline with persistent minimal variability and no accelerations or decelerations (b) 34 hours after trauma: fetal intracranial anatomy largely unremarkable as demonstrated by this transverse view at the level of the lateral ventricle. (c) 62 hours after trauma: a large hyperechoic lesion in the frontal lobe is visualized () as well as findings consistent with a subdural hematoma (arrows).

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