Wax Joseph R, Carpenter Molly, Smith Wendy, Grimes Charles, Pinette Michael G, Blackstone Jacquelyn, Cartin Angelina
Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine, USA.
J Ultrasound Med. 2003 Aug;22(8):805-8. doi: 10.7863/jum.2003.22.8.805.
To describe the sonographic features of diastrophic dysplasia in 2 second-trimester index offspring.
Real-time sonography was performed on 2 second-trimester fetuses with no risk factors for skeletal dysplasia.
Each fetus had severe bilateral upper and lower extremity long bone shortening, hitchhiker thumbs and great toes, and clubbed feet, indicating a diagnosis of diastrophic dysplasia.
Index cases of diastrophic dysplasia may be correctly diagnosed on the basis of second-trimester sonography.