Accuracy of clinical diagnosis in Down's syndrome

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Hindley and Medakkar1 showed that the clinical diagnosis of Down’s syndrome is inaccurate in one third of cases. We can imagine how stressful it will be for the parents if they have been told that their child may have Down’s syndrome and then subsequently karyotype proves to be normal. We conducted a retrospective study to estimate the accuracy of clinically suspicion in our region and in our hospital in...

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