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Pitfalls of gestational age reassignment in evaluation of low maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein levels

S G Albright1, L H Lingley, J W Seeds

  • 1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Accurate interpretation of low maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein levels depends on confirmation of gestational age by ultrasound. However, revision of gestational age estimations based solely on sonographic fetal biometry may result in excluding the fetus with trisomy from further diagnostic study.

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