Chatzigeorgiou Konstantinos, Theodoridis Theodoros, Efstratiou Ioannis, Athanasiadis Apostolos, Zepiridis Leonidas, Tzevelekis Filippos, Tarlatzis Basil
1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Ring Road, Nea Efkarpia, 56403 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Cases J. 2009 Nov 29;2:9108. doi: 10.1186/1757-1626-2-9108.
The amniotic band syndrome has a scarce prevalence and intrauterine death as a result of amniotic bands formation is extremely rare.
We present an illustrative case of intrauterine death of an embryo in the 24th gestational week in an 30-year old primigravida. The death was ascribed to the twisting of the umbilical cord around the left upper extremity, causing a strangulation of the umbilical cord in a very impressive way.
Constriction of the umbilical cord by an amniotic band is extremely rare and very hard, if not impossible, to diagnose with antenatal sonography.