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Fetal hydrometrocolpos and congenital imperforate hymen: Prenatal and postnatal imaging features.

Raquel Garcia RodriguezJulio Pérez GonzálezRaquel Garcia DelgadoAzahara Rodriguez GuedesMaría de Luis AlvaradoMargarita Medina CastellanoJose Angel Garcia Hernandez
Published in: Journal of clinical ultrasound : JCU (2018)
Congenital imperforate hymen is probably the most common obstructive anomaly of the female reproductive tract. The accumulation of fluid in the genital tract leads to a distended uterus and vagina, causing hydrometrocolpos. Prenatal diagnosis of fetal hydrometrocolpos is uncommon, with only 22 cases reported in the literature and only a few cases of prenatal imaging of this condition available to date. The main ultrasound finding is a fetal pelvic mass posterior to the bladder and anterior to the rectum. We present the case of a 37-week female fetus with a fetal pelvic mass detected in a routine obstetric ultrasound examination, and the correlation between the prenatal and postnatal findings.
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