This article is part of the supplement: 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida .

Oral presentation

Long term prognosis of fetal hydrocephalus

Mami Yamasaki , Junji Yamada and Masahiro Nonaka

Department of neurosurgery, osaka national hospital, osaka, japan

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from 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida
Barcelona, Spain. 29 June – 2 July 2005

Cerebrospinal Fluid Research 2005, 2(Suppl 1):S12doi:10.1186/1743-8454-2-S1-S12

Published:	30 December 2005

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In japan, 55% of the patients with congenital hydrocephalus are diagnosed prenatally as fetal ventriculomegaly, as result of advances in prenatal imaging techniques. However the clinical and ethical problems of fetal hydrocephalus continue to be unsolved. The aim of this paper is to clarify these problems.