PRENATAL-DIAGNOSIS OF SKELETAL DYSPLASIA BY REAL-TIME ULTRASOUND

  • 1 January 1984
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 63  (3) , 360-364
Abstract
A control group of 165 normal pregnant women between 16 and 22 weeks'' gestation was studied by real-time ultrasound scan to establish the normal length of the femur, tibia-fibula complex, humerus and radius-ulna complex. A group of 32 pregnant women at risk for various types of fetal skeletal dysplasia were studied during the same gestational period. In 3 cases a structural defect was diagnosed, resulting in elective abortion. Conditions for optimal prenatal diagnosis of skeletal dysplasias are discussed.