Research Article

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

Box 1

List of common malformations detected before 20 weeks.
Skeletal dysplasia (achondrogenesis, thantophoric dysplasia, osteogenesis imperfecta), frequently continued as wrong dates
Limb body wall complex
Renal agenesis, frequently continued as severeoligohydramnious
Agenesis of corpus callosum,
Occipital encephalocoele
Porencephaly, Posterior fossa cyst
Spinal defects like diastematomelia, hemivertebrae, iniencephaly
Ventriculomegaly
Multiple malformations (Meckel grcuber, VACTREL, Kleipell Trenaunay Weber, Cooks)
Hydronephrosis, VUR, PUJ Obstruction
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation
Hypoplastic left and right heart
Lower urinary tract obsruction
Bilateral multicystic dysplastic kidney
Megacystis
Tracheoesophageal fistula
Meconium peritonitis
Congenital high airway obstruction
Urorectal septal malformations
Teratomas,
Isolated pleural effusion and
Extralobar pulmonary sequestration
TRAP sequence
Cystic hygroma