Prenatal diagnosis of fetal chromosomal abnormalities: report of an 18-year experience in a Brazilian public hospital

The study of the fetal karyotype became an important tool for the fetal diagnosis of genetic diseases in the 1970s. Although application of this test has remained very restricted in Brazil, we had 905 referrals for prenatal fetal karyotyping between 1989 and 2007. In 879 cases, a fetal karyotype was...

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Main Authors: Rejane G. Kessler, Maria Teresa V. Sanseverino, Sandra Leistner-Segal, José A.A. Magalhães, Roberto Giugliani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2008-12-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572008000500004