RT Book, Section
A1 Hogge, W. Allen
A1 Cohlan, Barbara
A1 Wilkins, Isabelle
A1 Hill, Lyndon
SR Print(0)
ID 1129202873
T1 Foreword
T2 Sanders' Structural Fetal Abnormalities, 3e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259641374
LK obgyn.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1129202873
RD 2024/04/19
AB It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  write  the  foreword  for  the  new  edition  of  Structural  Fetal  Abnormalities.  The  book  has  an  interesting  history.  In  1970,  I  joined  the  Johns  Hopkins  Department  of  Radiology  as  an  instructor,  on  a  1-year  leave  of  absence  from  my  UK  position  at  Oxford,  and  was  put  in  charge  of  genitourinary  imaging.  Within  a  month,  the  hospital's  woman's  board  announced  the  donation  of  a  bistable  ultrasound  imaging  system  for  use  in  the  women's  clinic.  With  minimal  experience  in  ultrasound,  I  was  asked  to  develop  the  use  of  the  system  and  welcomed  the  opportunity  to  travel  around  the  USA  for  training  and  machine  selection.  I  started  imaging  fetuses,  crudely  assessing  growth  by  measuring  the  biparietal  diameter  and  the  femur  length,  counting  fetal  number,  and  discovering  fetal  lie.  I  even  attempted  to  diagnose  placenta  previa  by  imaging  a  fluid-filled  pessary  placed  around  the  cervix  after  a  "double  setup."  Fetal  anomaly  detection  seemed  a  remote  possibility  because  the  images  were  so  rudimentary.  I  soon  became  fascinated  by  the  technique  and  decided  to  stay  on  when  my  year  away  from  the  United  Kingdom  was  complete.