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A 22-year old pregnant woman without known pathologies was referred for fetal MRI due to abnormal findings on the 31 gestational weeks (GW) prenatal ultrasound. Brain, heart, and digestive tract anomalies were suspected. Fetal MRI was performed at 31 + 2 GW and postmortem at 32 GW.

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Covini, D., Diogo, M.C., Prayer, D. (2018). Case 4. In: Xavier, J., Vasconcelos, C., Ramos, C. (eds) Diagnostic and Therapeutic Neuroradiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61140-2_4

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