Leeds Fetal Medicine Unit Website

Detailed fetal anatomy scanning

Leeds fetal medicine unit offers detailed fetal anatomy scanning using the ultra-sound lastest technology. Detailed anatomy scanning is similar to the routine anatomy scans that all pregnant women in Yorkshire have performed with the additional measurements and views added. Detailed anatomy scans may be performed to help clarify findings from routine anatomy scans, or when there is a history or suspicion of a specific abnomality (usually from a previous pregnancy).

Detailed anatomy scans in Leeds look at

Standard measurements of head, abdomen, femur placental
Fetal brain and head shape (including measurements of lateral ventricles, cerebellum, cysterna magna, nuchal skin fold and corpus callosum)
Fetal face
Fetal spine in three directions
Fetal chest
Fetal heart (including outflow tracts)
Fetal abdomen (including stomach, liver, diaphragm, kidneys, renal pelvices, bladder, umbilical cord insertion and vessels)
Fetal limbs (including long bone measurements, hands, fingers and feet)

For examples pictures of what normal measurements of the above look like please click here to download a pdf collection

If you have techinical problems with this website please contact webmaster@leedsth.nhs.uk.