Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26139528

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Fetal Diagn Ther. 2015 Jun 26. [Epub ahead of print]
Stomach in Contact with the Bladder: A Sonographic Sign of Left Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia.
Aiello H1, Meller C, V?zquez L, Ota?o L.
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Abstract
The evaluation of the characteristics of the fetal stomach should be part of every routine prenatal ultrasound after 11 weeks. A position that has not been previously described in the literature is the stomach in contact with the bladder. We describe 6 cases with the ultrasonographic finding of the stomach in contact with the bladder, all of them in fetuses with left-sided congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Even though the reasons for this striking position of the stomach are not clear, our series highlights the fact that the visualization of the stomach in contact with the bladder may be a specific sonographic marker of congenital diaphragmatic hernia. ? 2015 S. Karger AG, Basel.

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