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Amniotic band attachment to a fetal limb: demonstration with real-time sonography
L C Laberge1, A Ruszkowski, F Morin
1Division of Plastic Surgery, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
Annals of Plastic Surgery
|September 1, 1995
Abstract:
On ultrasonography, an 18-week-old fetus was found to have his left hand attached to an amniotic band. The child was born with typical anomalies of the amniotic band syndrome. This observation tends to support an extrinsic theory for the pathogenesis of the amniotic band syndrome.