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THE CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS OF MAJOR CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES OF THE FETAL CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1976.tb00857.x
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 83, Issue 6, pages 422–424, June 1976
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Edwards, R. P. and Balfour, R. P. (1976), THE CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS OF MAJOR CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES OF THE FETAL CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 83: 422–424. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1976.tb00857.x
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- Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005
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Summary
During the ten years between 1965 and 1974, 207 infants with a major congenital abnormality of the central nervous system were born at Mill Road Maternity Hospital, Liverpool; open neural tube defects occurred in 92 per cent of cases. Only cases of anencephaly were frequently diagnosed clinically before labour and this was rarely so for spina bifida alone. Only 11 patients (5.3 per cent) had previously been delivered of an affected infant. The routine screening of pregnant patients is briefly discussed.