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Prenatal diagnosis of a tetraploid fetus
M Teyssier1, P Gaucherand, A Buenerd
1Laboratoire Central d'Hématologie et de Cytogénétique, Pavillon E, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France.
Prenatal Diagnosis
|May 1, 1997
Abstract:
A tetraploid fetus with an unusual facial appearance and multiple congenital anomalies (large cerebral lateral ventricles; lung, cardiac, and genital abnormalities) is reported. Chromosome analysis was performed on amniocytes and fetal blood lymphocytes. A comparison is made with other reported cases (nine liveborn infants and one 17.2-week-old fetus).