[Measuring subcutaneous fatty tissue as a sonographic parameter for detection of fetal growth retardation and fetal hypertrophy in pregnancy].

This investigation contains a statistical evaluation of sonographic results concerning fetal subcutaneous adipose tissue aiming to examine and assess the relevance of this new sonographic parameter for the detection of fetal growth retardation, resp. fetal hypertrophy during pregnancy. The diagrammatic presentation of the growth of the subcutaneous adipose tissue of eutrophic fetuses shows low validity for the differentiation of hyper- and hypotrophic fetuses. To enable the differentiation between "asymmetric" and "symmetric" types of retardation, the different degrees of growth of the subcutaneous adipose tissue of hypertrophic fetuses have to be taken into consideration. The relation between birthweight and growth of the subcutaneous adipose tissue shows no distinct differentiation of the birthweight, however, presents overlapping categories of the birthweight for diagnostic orientation.