Prenatal diagnosis of dwarfism by ultrasound screening.
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- 1 November 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 60 (11) , 1070-1072
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.60.11.1070
Abstract
In a general, ultrasound screening programme, 12 453 women were examined at 16 and 32 weeks of pregnancy. The screening detected all limb deformities in the population during the study period. The seeming prevalence of dwarfism in the population was 750 per million.Keywords
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