Significance of foot length determination to enhance accuracy of fetal
clubfoot diagnosis
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Case of prenatal ultrasound diagnosis of EEC syndrome at 14 weeks of gestation is presented. A rare feature of the case was the ectrodactyly of all limbs. 29 women with fetal clubfoot have been examined. The principal sonographic sign of this pathology has been established to be the foot length shortening that varied between 1 week and 1 day in 13 weeks and 6 days of gestation and 4 weeks and 5 days in 37 weeks and 1 day of gestation. Some sort or other pathology was found in those fetuses in 86.2 % of follow-up cases, while combined with clubfoot in 48.3 %. In total, 30 various congenital abnormalities with the total number of 78 (which made 2.7 congenital abnormalities per one fetus) have been diagnosed in this group of fetuses
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