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Fetal Brain Tumor
Posted: 02-23-08 06:05am

i am priya i am now 7 month pregnant.... i went for a ultrasound scanning. doctor said tat the baby growth is very fine and i have my baby weight to be 0.850kg. Doctor said us to take another scan since in my babies brain there is a extra growth of "prompting IV ventricle". I asked doctor is that a tumer. doctor said no and she told not to worry since that will go wen the baby grows....but i feel afraid.... u say what is tat and give me clear view.....


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Posted: 03-09-08 19:13pm

In medical science, the term “extra growth” usually refers to some tumor. If that “extra growth, prompting IV ventricle” in your fetus wasn’t a tumor your doctor should told you what it really was. It seems to me that he is not sure either.
You can ask for another scan and second opinion.





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