Principles of fetal postmortem ultrasound: A personal review

Postmortem imaging has produced much scientific literature in the recent years in the medical literature, including fetal death conditions, but ultrasound is the least studied imaging modality although it is the most widely used in the living fetus and newborn. We describe the experience of our department in 20 years of postmortem fetal ultrasounds. Through more than a thousand cases analyzed, we describe the technique and images obtained by post-mortem ultrasound in the particular setting of fetal death. We will discuss its abilities and limitations.