1b. Fetal Face & Spine: From Diagnosis to Management

1b. Fetal Face & Spine: From Diagnosis to Management

Highlights

  • Applied embryology
  • Understanding facial biometry
  • Optimal use of Technological advances for assessment of fetal face and spine
  • Assessing and standardized reporting of spinal anomalies
  • Fetal MRI in Fetal Spine Assessment
  • Facial anomalies- what do we tell prospective parents?
Fetal face and spine ultrasound workshop CUSP 2026 Chennai prenatal imaging

Program List

Time Program
08.00 - 08.30 Registration
08.45 - 09.00 Welcome & Introduction
Session 1 - Fetal Face - Normal - 2D/3D - facial measurements & angles
09.00 - 09.30 Embryology & applied anatomy of the fetal face
09.30 - 10.10 Imaging of fetal face - 2D & facial biometry deciphered
10.10 - 10.50 Optimal use of 3D/4D for deciphering fetal facial anatomy (practical demos) - recording/volume working
10.50 - 11.00 Audience interaction
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break
Session 2 - Mutidisciplinary approach to Facial dysmorphism
11.30 - 12.00 Facial clefts - A dialogue
12.00 - 12.20 Understanding fetal Micrognathia
12.20 - 12.35 Flat facial profile - An algorithmic approach
12.35 - 12.50 Fetal ear evaluation - non guideline mandated but diagnostically valuable
12.50 - 01.10 Decoding facial dysmorphism - Fetal face as a mirror for various syndromes
01.10 - 01.20 Audience interaction
01.20 - 01.30 Polls & predictions - An interactive session
01.30 - 02.30 Lunch
Session 3 - Fetal Spine - Evaluation of normal fetal spine
02.30 - 02.50 Fetogram of the spine with relevant embryology-across gestation
02.50 - 03.20 Imaging the normal fetal spine - a systematic approach 2D & 3D (Demo)
03.20 - 03.45 3D of the fetal spine - exploring possibilities - Demo on stored volumes
03.45 - 03.55 Audience interaction
Session 4 - Multidisciplinary approach to abnormal spine Podcast/dialogue
04.00 - 04.30 Closed spinal dysraphism - Diagnosis & management
04.30 - 05.00 Open spinal dysraphism - Diagnosis & management
05.00 - 05.30 Vertebral anomalies (block/hemivertebra/kyphosis)
05.30 - 05.40 Audience interaction
05.40 Wrap up & take home messages