Fetal Imaging - Case Report 2016

MRI of omphalopagus conjoined twins with a Dandy-Walker malformation: prenatal true FISP and HASTE sequences

10.4261/1305-3825.DIR.1747-08.0

  • Özkan Ünal
  • Halil Arslan
  • Ertan Adalı
  • Aydın Bora
  • Recep Yıldızhan
  • Serhat Avcu

Received Date: 10.03.2008 Accepted Date: 07.04.2008 Diagn Interv Radiol 2010;16(1):66-69

Conjoined twins are an extremely rare congenital malformation without any known genetic predisposition. Omphalopagus twins are the second most common variety of conjoined twins and usually are joined at the umbilicus. We present omphalopagus conjoined twins demonstrated with true FISP (fast imaging with steady-state procession) and HASTE (half- Fourier acquisition single-shot turbo spin-echo) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences, which showed Dandy- Walker malformation in one of the pair. To our knowledge, this is the first case of conjoined twins with this malformation, which was diagnosed with ultrafast MRI.

Keywords: twins, conjoined , magnetic resonance imaging , Dandy-Walker malformation