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Cervical ribs in mid-trimester fetuses

✍ Scribed by Seller, Mary J.

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 870 B
Volume: 78
Category: Article
ISSN: 0148-7299
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8628(19980724)78:4<391::aid-ajmg21>3.0.co;2-c

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✦ Synopsis

I read with great interest the recent article ''Cervical Ribs in Fetuses With Ullrich-Turner Syndrome (UTS)'' by Kjaer and Fischer-Hansen [1997]. In their radiological study of nine fetuses with this condition between 15 1/2 and 22 gestational weeks, they found bilateral or unilateral cervical ribs in all cases and concluded that this is a phenotypic characteristic of UTS and directly applicable to autopsy diagnosis. However, this study used no control fetuses at all: No comparison was made with either age-matched chromosomally and developmentally normal fetuses or with other abnormal fetuses.

I have examined numerous radiographs of fetuses in both of these categories, ranging in age from 16 to 22 weeks of gestation. It is my observation that cervical ribs always seem to be present at this stage of gestation in all fetuses both normal and with a whole range of abnormalities.

Thus, at least during the mid-second trimester, there is no specificity: Cervical ribs are universally present in fetuses.

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