Heminasal hypoplasia prenatal diagnosis: a rare case report
https://doi.org/10.24835/1607-0771-297
Abstract
Heminasal hypoplasia/aplasia is a developmental anomaly within the spectrum of disorders affecting the formation of the nasal cavity, external nose, and sinuses, characterized by underdevelopment or partial absence of these structures. Fewer than 100 cases of this pathology have been described worldwide, with only a few detected prenatally. The article presents a case of heminasal hypoplasia suspected by third-trimester ultrasound, where underdevelopment of the right nasal wing and nasal passage was detected in the fetus. The article outlines the prenatal ultrasound features of this developmental anomaly, as well as details of diagnosing a full spectrum of nasal, ocular, and craniofacial skeletal malformations detected in the first years of the child’s life. The discussion includes a differential diagnosis, which considers choanal atresia in association with CHARGE-syndrome and maxillofacial microsomia, and reviews similar clinical descriptions presented in the global literature.
About the Authors
Yu. G. Vishnevskaya
Maternity Hospital No. 2 of the City of Vladimir
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yulia G. Vishnevskaya – M.D., ultrasound diagnostics doctor, Maternity Hospital No. 2 of the City of Vladimir, Vladimir. http://doi.org/0009-0000-4539-4355
M. M. Bulanova
L.A. Vorohobov City Clinical Hospital No. 67; Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Maria M. Bulanova – M.D., ultrasound diagnostics doctor, L.A. Vorohobov City Clinical Hospital No. 67;
PhD student of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Faculty of Fundamental Medicine, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow.
http://doi.org/0000-0002-9569-3334
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Vishnevskaya Yu.G., Bulanova M.M. Heminasal hypoplasia prenatal diagnosis: a rare case report. Ultrasound & Functional Diagnostics. 2025;31(1):37-46. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24835/1607-0771-297
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