Assessment of gestational maturity using a new fundal height measuring tape.
From a series of women with known conception dates, the 50th percentiles of their weekly fundal height measurements were used to calibrate a measuring tape. As a method of gestational assessment, the tape was found to be accurate to within two weeks of the exact dates in 79% of this control group, compared with 96% and 84% respectively using conventional crown rump length and biparietal diameter ultrasound techniques on these same patients.
D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus / Q000502:physiology*; D005865:Gestational Age; D006128:Growth; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D011247:Pregnancy; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014599:Uterus / Q000033:anatomy & histology