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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Feb 8.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2021 Mar 12;5(6):447–458. doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(20)30313-8

Figure 4. MRIs of two fetuses with oesophageal atresia.

Figure 4

(A) Fetus at 32 weeks and 5 days of gestation has a dilated upper pouch (marked by an asterisk), displacing the trachea (blue arrowhead) in the axial view (upper right image). A two-vessel umbilical cord (red arrow) can be seen in the sagittal plane (top middle image). The postnatal CT (lower two images) shows a long-segment common tracheoesophageal channel (encircled, left) and distal fistula arising from the left main bronchus (red arrow, right). (B) Fetus at 30 weeks and 5 days of gestation has a dilated upper pouch (marked by an asterisk in the left image and an arrow in the central image) and normal stomach (arrowhead), suggesting a distal fistula. Gap measurement is possible in the sagittal image (right). bSSFP=balanced steady-state free precession MRI.