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Fetal karyotype from cystic hygroma fluid
1Département de Gynécologie-Obstétrique, Hôpital Antoine Béclère, Clamart, France.
Prenatal Diagnosis
|February 1, 1992
Abstract:
In cystic hygroma (CH) fetuses, hydrops fetalis and anamnios make it difficult or impossible to obtain amniotic fluid or cord blood for cytogenetic analysis. We report six cases of CH in which cytogenetic analysis was simply and successfully performed using nuchal fluid cells. The karyotypes were 47,XY, + 18,46,XY,46,XX, and 45,X (n = 3).