title: Early prenatal diagnosis of conjoined twins at 7 weeks and 6 days' gestation with two-dimensional Doppler ultrasound: a case report.
abstract: This case report presents the prenatal diagnosis of conjoined twins at 7 weeks and 6 days' gestation according to the last menstrual period and 6 weeks and 4 days' gestation according to crown-rump length in a 32-year-old Turkish woman, using two-dimensional Doppler ultrasound. The twins were fused to each other at the thoracic region (thoracopagus). In the light of previous reports of conjoined twins this appears to be one of the earliest prenatally diagnosed cases in the medical literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gazi University, Medical College and Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. mztaner@gazi.edu.tr
authors.forename: M Zeki
authors.initials: MZ
authors.lastname: Taner
authors.forename: Mertihan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kurdoglu
authors.forename: Cagatay
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Taskiran
authors.forename: Zehra
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Kurdoglu
authors.forename: Ozdemir
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Himmetoglu
authors.forename: Sevim
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Balci