Article
Trisomy 16 in a mid-trimester IVF foetus with multiple abnormalities.
Clinical dysmorphology - 1 Jul 2004
Seller Mary J, Fear Claudine, Kumar Ajith, Mohammed Shehla
Abstract excerpt
An 18 week foetus with multiple system abnormalities was found to have full trisomy 16. This appears to be only the third reported case surviving into mid-gestation; typically, this common aneuploidy dies post-implantation. Similarities exist in the abnormalities found in the three cases suggesting that there is a 'surviving' trisomy 16 phenotype. It is characterised by: absent hemidiaphragm, pulmonary...
Topics
- Abnormalities, Multiple
- Abortion, Induced
- Aneuploidy
- Anus, Imperforate
- Bone and Bones
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16
- Cleft Palate
- Face
- Facies
- Female
- Fertilization in Vitro
- Foot Deformities, Congenital