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Triploidy in a twin pregnancy: small placenta volume as an early sonographical marker.
Prenatal diagnosis - 1 Jan 2003
Gassner Rainer, Metzenbauer Martin, Hafner Erich, Vallazza Ursula, Philipp Karl
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INTRODUCTION: We report a case of a twin pregnancy with triploidy of maternal phenotype of one foetus and no chromosomal anomaly of the other twin and the role of sonographical placental volumetry. CASE: At 12 weeks of gestation, a dichorionic twin pregnancy discordant in growth is diagnosed. 3D ultrasound reveals a distinctly small placental volume of foetus II. Amniocentesis at 16 weeks discloses triploidy of...
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