Rapid fetal karyotype from cystic hygroma and pleural effusions

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Fluid from pleural effusion (n = 2) and cystic hygroma (n = 7) was obtained from eight fetuses, between 13 and 32 weeks of pregnancy at the time when a conventional prenatal diagnosis procedure was carried out. As these fluids contain lymphocytes, they were processed like peripheral blood. A karyotype was obtained in 4 days in both cases of pleural effusion and in four out of seven samples of cystic hygroma. An...

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