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An Assessment Of Femur Growth Parameters In Human Fetuses And Their Relationship To Gestational Age, Taner Zi̇ylan, Khalil Awadh Murshed
An Assessment Of Femur Growth Parameters In Human Fetuses And Their Relationship To Gestational Age, Taner Zi̇ylan, Khalil Awadh Murshed
Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences
Fetal femur length assessment has been the subject of numerous investigations. Skeletal growth disturbances, estimation of fetal gestational age, developmental abnormality and detection of certain fetal congenital anomalies, and determination of population growth characteristics have been the objectives of different investigators' studies. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationships between the crown-rump length (CRL) and fetal femur growth parameters and the gestational age during the second and third trimesters. Thirty dead normal immature and premature fetuses were selected from the fetal collection at the Anatomy Department of the Medical School, Selçuk University. Depending on the fetal CRL …