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A rare case of a false-negative finding in both direct and culture of a chorionic villus sample
L Pindar1, M Whitehouse, K Ocraft
1Department of Cytogenetics, City Hospital, Nottingham, U.K.
Prenatal Diagnosis
|June 1, 1992
Abstract:
A discrepancy is reported between the karyotype of both direct and cultured chorionic villus cells (46,XX) and a fetal skin biopsy (47,XX, +18). The significance of this result is discussed and compared with similar discordant findings reported in the literature.