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The Fetus with Ganglionic Eminence Abnormality: Head Size and Extracranial Sonographic Findings Predict Genetic Diagnoses and Postnatal Outcomes

S.K. Goergen, E. Alibrahim, J. Christie, A. Dobrotwir, M. Fahey, L. Fender, K. Frawley, S.A. Manikkam, J.R. Pinner, S. Sinnott, R. Romaniello, S.A. Sandaradura, J. Taylor, A. Vasudevan and A. Righini
American Journal of Neuroradiology May 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A7131
S.K. Goergen
aFrom the Monash Imaging (S.K.G.), Monash Health, Victoria, Australia
bDepartments of Imaging and Surgery (S.K.G.), School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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E. Alibrahim
cDepartment of Radiology (E.A., A.D.), Royal Women’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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J. Christie
dPRP Imaging (J.C.), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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A. Dobrotwir
cDepartment of Radiology (E.A., A.D.), Royal Women’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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M. Fahey
eDepartment of Paediatrics (M.F.), School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
fNeurogenetics Unit (M.F.), Monash Health, Victoria, Australia
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L. Fender
gDepartment of Radiology (L.F.), King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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K. Frawley
hDepartment of Medical Imaging and Nuclear Medicine (K.F., S.A.M.), Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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S.A. Manikkam
hDepartment of Medical Imaging and Nuclear Medicine (K.F., S.A.M.), Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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J.R. Pinner
iCentre for Clinical Genetics (J.R.P.), Sydney Children’s Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
jUniversity of New South Wales (J.R.P.), Sydney, Australia
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S. Sinnott
kSO + GI Scan I-MED Radiology (S.S.), Department of Medical Imaging, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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R. Romaniello
lChild Neuropsychiatry and Neurorehabilitation Department (R.R.), Scientific Institute Eugenio Medea, La Nostra Famiglia, Bosiso Parini, Lecco, Italy
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S.A. Sandaradura
mDiscipline of Child and Adolescent Health (S.A.S.), Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia
nDepartment of Clinical Genetics (S.A.S.), Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia
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J. Taylor
oDepartment of Radiology (J.T.), Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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A. Vasudevan
pDepartment of Clinical Genetics (A.V.), Royal Women’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
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A. Righini
qDepartment of Pediatric Radiology and Neuroradiology (A.R.), Vittore Buzzi Children’s Hospital, Milan, Italy
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    PIK3CA pathogenic variant. Case 2 at 31 weeks 3 days’ gestation. Megalencephaly, polymicrogyria, polydactyly hydrocephalus syndrome due to a PIK3CA heterozygous pathogenic variant. The fronto-occipital diameter is =6 SDs above the mean for gestation. Enlarged bilateral ganglionic eminences (arrows, A) are seen on T2-weighted single-shot FSE and DWI (A and B). Diffusion-weighted b = 0 image (C) and T2*-weighted EPI (D) confirm the absence of hemorrhage as the cause for ganglionic eminence enlargement. Abnormal opercularization is present with Sylvian fissures lined by peri-Sylvian polymicrogyria (E). Postaxial polydactyly is seen on sonography with arrow indicating a rudimentary sixth digit medial to the fifth digit of the hand (F).

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    MTOR/PROS pathway mutations. Smith-Kingsmore syndrome (case 5) at 25 weeks’ gestation demonstrates enlarged GEs on DWI and T2-weighted single-shot FSE. There is bilateral underopercularization and left peri-Sylvian polymicrogyria (arrow). The right hemisphere is mildly overgrown.

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    Tuberous sclerosis complex (A and B). Case 1. Dichorionic diamniotic twin at 22 weeks 5 days’ gestation. T2-weighted single-shot FSE image demonstrates hemimegalencephaly and marked enlargement of the ipsilateral GE, which merges with a hypointense masslike lesion in the enlarged right cerebral hemisphere. The fetus had left ventricular cardiac rhabdomyoma on prenatal sonography (arrow, B); the findings likely represent tuberous sclerosis complex with an associated hemispheric malformation or, less likely, coexistent subependymal giant cell astrocytoma. No postmortem data or confirmatory genetic testing was available. Case 8. T2 single-shot FSE at 25 weeks gestation (C) and T2 FSE at 1-week postnatal imaging (D) demonstrate mild enlargement of the right GE, ipsilateral and mild ventriculomegaly on fetal MR imaging, and typical changes of tuberous sclerosis complex postnatally. The fetus’ father also had tuberous sclerosis complex.

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    TUBA1A mutations (A–C). Case 18. T2-weighted single-shot FSE at 24 weeks 4 days’ gestation. TUBA1A pathogenic heterozygous variant. The bilateral GEs are enlarged. The fronto-occipital diameter is 2.5, standard deviations below the mean. The corpus callosum and cerebellum are severely hypogenetic/hypoplastic. Underopercularization, severe ventriculomegaly, a thin kinked brainstem (A), a ventral pontine cleft suggestive of a Walker-Warburg phenotype, and apparent diencephalic-mesencephalic fusion or dysplasia (C) are also noted. D, Case 19 at 33 weeks. TUBA1A mutation with enlarged, cavitated GEs and abnormal persistence of hemispheric lamination.

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    PDHA1 and OPHN1 mutations. A and B, PDHA1 mutation. Case 20 at 23 weeks 3 days’ gestation. PDHA1 mutation. Agenesis of the corpus callosum with the anterior commissure present (short arrow), cavitated enlarged GEs, and anterior temporal pole subependymal pseudocysts (germinolytic cysts) (long arrows). C and D, Case 21 at 29 weeks. OPHN1 mutation with mild ventriculomegaly (11 mm) and bilaterally enlarged GEs.

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