Prenatal features of a fetal frontal hemangioma assessed by 3D ultrasound and color Doppler imaging

*Correspondence to: O. Picone, Service de Gynécologie Obstétrique et Médecine de la Reproduction, Hôpital Antoine Béclère, 157, Rue de la Porte de Trivaux, 92141 Clamart Cedex, France. E-mail: olivier.picone@abc.aphp.fr that is routine in France. The patient’s medical and obstetrical history was unremarkable. The couple was not consanguineous. The first ultrasound scan at 13 weeks was considered normal. The second ultrasound screening, at 22 weeks, revealed a median subcutaneous and vascularized tumor of the face, 8 mm in diameter in the midsagittal plane (Figure 1(A)). Color Doppler ultrasound HD (PRF 0.6 KHz) analysis showed a highly vascularized mass with low flow,

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