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Antenatal ultrasound scan of the fetal head showing a single dilated ventricle with a considerable cortical mantle and a fused thalamus with completely fused hemispheres but without septum pellucidum.
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An ultrasound scan (USS) performed at 34 weeks of pregnancy reported a single intrauterine fetus in a vertex presentation with a single horseshoe-shaped ventricle, a considerable cortical mantle, and a fused thalamus without septum pellucidum (Figure 1).
Neonate with cebocephaly (microcephaly, hypotelorism, single nostril, a monkey-like head) and without other external abnormalities.
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Clinically, the neonate had microcephaly (28 cm), hypotelorism, and a single nostril giving a clear picture of a monkey-like head, known as cebocephaly (Figures 2 and 3). There were no other associated external abnormalities such as cleft palate, spina bifida, omphalocele, imperforate anus, or genital abnormalities (Figures 2, 4, and 5).
Cebocephaly (monkey-like head).
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Clinically, the neonate had microcephaly (28 cm), hypotelorism, and a single nostril giving a clear picture of a monkey-like head, known as cebocephaly (Figures 2 and 3).
No spina bifida or club foot.
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There were no other associated external abnormalities such as cleft palate, spina bifida, omphalocele, imperforate anus, or genital abnormalities (Figures 2, 4, and 5).
No perineal abnormalities (anus and perineum are normal) in a neonate with alobar HPE.
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There were no other associated external abnormalities such as cleft palate, spina bifida, omphalocele, imperforate anus, or genital abnormalities (Figures 2, 4, and 5).