Case of the month: January 1999--Fetus with echogenic mass in third ventricle

Brain Pathol. 1999 Jul;9(3):605-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.1999.tb00605.x.

Abstract

A 29-week gestational age newborn male infant was found to have an echogenic mass in the 3rd ventricle by prenatal ultrasound 2 weeks prior to delivery. At delivery he was poorly responsive and had hydrocephalus and ascites. A CT scan after birth showed cerebral infarction, amorphous tissue in the left hemisphere and numerous calcifications. Despite supportive treatment he died 4 days after birth. Postmortem examination of the brain revealed marked distortion of the architecture and a supratentorial undifferentiated neoplasm consistent with a PNET. The tumor showed extensive areas of hemorrhage and necrosis and involvement of lateral and third ventricles, brain parenchyma, and meninges.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Cerebral Ventricles / pathology*
  • Cerebral Ventriculography
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Fetus / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Infant, Premature
  • Infant, Premature, Diseases
  • Male
  • Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive / diagnostic imaging
  • Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive / pathology*
  • Prenatal Diagnosis
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Ultrasonography