Early Detection of Fetal Malformation, a Long Distance Yet to Cover! Present Status and Potential of First Trimester Ultrasonography in Detection of Fetal Congenital Malformation in a Developing Country: Experience at a Tertiary Care Centre in India

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(a, b, and c) show skeletal malformation achondrogenesis (3D), thanatophoric dysplasia, and osteogenesis imperfecta. All of them potentially diagnosable before 12 weeks and usually before 20 weeks were missed and were diagnosed late. (d) shows bilateral multicystic dysplastic kidney diagnosed at 31 weeks, with fetus being continued as oligohydramnios.

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