A cytogenetic study directly from chorionic villi of 140 spontaneous abortions
✍ Scribed by Bernd Eiben; Sabine Borgmann; Ingrid Schübbe; Ingo Hansmann
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 482 KB
- Volume
- 77
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-6717
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We report our experience in a cytogenetic study of 93 spontaneous abortions. Specimens were obtained by transabdominal chorionic villus sampling (TACVS) in women requesting prenatal diagnosis by chorionic villus sampling (CVS) but in whom an arrested pregnancy had been diagnosed during the ultrasoun
The karyotypes of 941 singleton and 42 twin abortuses and 4 cystic placentae were determined. 30.5% of the singletons were chromosomally abnormal; 49.8% of these were trisomic, 23.7% X-monosomics and 17.4% polyploid. 143 trisomies were identified by banding; over a third had an extra chromosome 16,