Prenatal diagnostic procedures.
Invasive prenatal diagnostic techniques such as fetal skin sampling, fetal liver biopsy, and fetal muscle biopsy are now reserved for the diagnosis of congenital disorders not amenable to diagnosis using amniocentesis or CVS. In the next few years, many of these conditions will become detectable by DNA analysis, and the need for these procedures will decline even further.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New England Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111.
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