Ultrasound fetal femur length in relation to intrauterine growth retardation. Part II.
With the establishment of a normal range of values for the growth of the ultrasound fetal femur length, a new approach for the study of growth-retarded fetuses is suggested. Ultrasound femur length was measured on a group of "high-risk" pregnancies, and its ability to differentiate the symmetrically small from the asymmetrically small fetus was studied. A reduced ultrasound fetal femur length correlated in all cases with a shortened crown-heel length in the neonate. By adding this ultrasound parameter to those routinely measured on the fetus, a three-dimensional profile can be constructed.
D001724:Birth Weight; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D005269:Femur / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000196:embryology*; D005317:Fetal Growth Retardation / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D012306:Risk; D014463:Ultrasonography