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Chorionic villus sampling and end-artery disruption of the fetus
A J Luijsterburg1, D C van der Zee, J L Gaillard
1Department of Anatomy, University Hospital Rotterdam, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Prenatal Diagnosis
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
A fetus with transverse limb reduction defects and jejunal atresia after exposure to chorionic villus sampling (CVS) at 9 weeks of amenorrhoea is described. A theory involving disruption of end-arteries due to the CVS procedure is suggested.