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As we have already seen, acrania is generally diagnosed in the first trimester, but should no ultrasound examination have been performed in the first trimester, the sonographer may be faced with the classic image of the “reptilian” face (Fig. 7.1).
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Bault, JP., Loeuillet, L. (2015). Second- and Third-Trimester Pathologies. In: The Normal and Pathological Fetal Brain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19971-9_7
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