P30.19: Prenatal diagnosis of isolated acephaly: a case report

A Case Study of a 12‐Week Pregnancy With a Single Live Decapitated Fetus

“…Very few cases of fetal decapitation have been documented in the literature, with all attributing the cause as amniotic band syndrome . Two of these cases noted fetal heart motion well into the 14th and 15th gestational weeks, despite the fetal heads being severed at week 10, a finding that we attribute to persistent intrinsic innervation of the fetal myocytes.…”