Objective Early elective termination of pregnancy is the most common outcome of a
diagnosis of anencephaly in developed countries. Experience and expertise with …

Background To review the obstetric outcomes of pregnancies with anencephalic fetuses
when these pregnancies are not terminated and ongoing. Methods A retrospective chart …

Parents are usually told that many anencephalic offspring die in utero or soon after delivery,
and many obstetricians offer elective termination of the pregnancy. Following the personal …

Objective. To describe the characteristics of obstetric and perinatal outcome of a group of
pregnancies complicated by an anencephalic fetus. Methods. Observational study including …

OBJECTIVE: We assessed at a large university hospital the effect of prenatal diagnosis on
the birth of infants with anencephaly between 1972 and 1990. STUDY DESIGN: All 175 …

Objectives: To ascertain the prevalence of newborn encephalopathy in term live births, and
also the underlying diagnoses, timing, and outcome at 2 years of surviving infants. Design …

Iniencephaly is a rare malformation characterized by the triad of occipital bone defect,
cervical dysraphism and fixed retroflexion of the fetal head. Because of its almost invariable …

Anencephaly is a severe malformation of the central nervous system (CNS), being one of the
most common types of neural tube defects. It is defined as total or partial absence of the …

The literature on the embryology, pathology, and epidemiology of anencephaly is
comprehensively reviewed. While there have been many hypotheses concerning the cause …

Anencephaly is one of the most lethal congenital defects. This case report is of an
anencephalic infant who lived to 28 months of life and defies current literature. She is the …