Published in Women's Health Law Weekly, January 8th, 2006
A recent study from France reports, "Improvements in the diagnosis of congenital malformations explain the increasing early termination of pregnancies. Before 13 weeks of gestation, an accurate in vivo anatomic diagnosis cannot currently be made in all fetuses with current imaging instrumentation."
J.M. Schleich and colleagues at Hopital Pontchaillou in Rennes explained, "Anatomopathologic examinations remain the gold standard to make accurate diagnoses, although they reach limits between 9 and 13 weeks of...
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