Short femur length associated with severe intrauterine growth retardation.
Four fetuses with a femur measuring greater than two standard deviations below the mean compared with the biparietal diameter are presented. These four fetuses were subsequently determined to have severe intrauterine growth retardation and no evidence of skeletal dysplasias.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
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D002508:Cephalometry; D005269:Femur / Q000196:embryology*; D005317:Fetal Growth Retardation / Q000473:pathology*; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans