Survival of an infant with amnion rupture sequence: a dilemma for clinicians.

Introduction Amnion rupture in early pregnancy results in severe anomalies such as anencephaly, encephalocoele, exencephaly, acrania, facial clefts and absence of limbs (1,2). Most affected fetuses abort in the second trimester, are stillborn or die soon after birth (1,3).We report an infant with amnion rupture sequence, who survived for 9 weeks after birth. A Medline search failed to reveal documentation of survival of a baby with severe craniofacial anomalies of this sequence for so long.