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First-trimester diagnosis of fetal abnormalities. A report of three cases
B R Benacerraf1, J E Lister, B L DuPonte
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
The Journal of Reproductive Medicine
|September 1, 1988
Abstract:
First-trimester sonography is used extensively for dating pregnancy and in conjunction with chorionic villus sampling. It is crucial to examine the fetus carefully, even at this early stage, since some fetal abnormalities are detectable in the first trimester. In three cases encephalocele, thanatophoric dwarf and cystic hygroma were diagnosed with sonography in the first trimester.