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Prenatal exclusion of Duchenne muscular dystrophy by fetal muscle biopsy
R J Benzie1, P Ray, D Thompson
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Prenatal Diagnosis
|April 1, 1994
Abstract:
A fetal thigh muscle biopsy was performed at 18 weeks and 6 days' gestation using an automatic 18-gauge biopsy needle. A positive immunoreaction with antisera to the amino- and carboxy-terminals of dystrophin excluded Duchenne muscular dystrophy from this at-risk male.