Echogenic Bowel and Fetal Aneuploidy

Ref.

Number with
echogenic bowel

Percentage
aneuploidy

Trisomy 21

Other

1

50

8/50 (16%)

6

Trisomy 13, Turner's syndrome

2

95

24/95 (25%)

11

Triploidy (5), Trisomy 18 (2) Trisomy 13 (1), Sex chromosome abnormalities (5)

3

22

6/22 (27%)

5

Trisomy 18 (1)



 

 

 

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