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Get autopsy after abortion for fetal anomaly: data may flag recurrence.(Obstetrics)
Postabortion autopsies can provide important risk-recurrence information to parents when pregnancy is terminated because of a prenatal diagnosis of a fetal anomaly, according to a 10-year retrospective study, said Dr. Patricia A. Boyd of the Institute of Health Sciences, Oxford, England, and her associates.
Based on information gathered from the Oxford Congenital Anomaly Register and the Oxford Maternity Data System, there were 309 terminations after fetal anomaly diagnosis in 57,258 deliveries from 1991 through 2000. Of the terminations, autopsies were conducted in 132 cases in which the anomalies were identified by ultrasound with no evidence for abnormal karyotype (BMJ [online], 2003; http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint /bmj.37939.570104.EEv1).
In 35 of the 132 cases, the autopsy ...
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