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Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences | Volume-3 | Issue-01
Fetal Foot Length for Assessment of Gestational Age: A Comprehensive Study in North India
Vishnu Datt Pandey, Vishram Singh, G L Nigam, Yasmeen Usmani, Yogesh Yadav
Published: March 27, 2015 |
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DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2015.v03i01.031
Pages: 139-144
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Abstract
Appropriate assessment of gestational age is paramount in obstetric care. Making appropriate management
decisions requires accurate appraisal of gestational age. Accurate pregnancy dating may assist obstetricians in
appropriately counseling women who are at risk of a preterm delivery about likely neonatal outcomes and is also
essential in the evaluation of fetal growth and the detection of intrauterine growth restriction. The purpose of this study is
to find out the other parameters such as foot length which can be used to determine the gestational age either more
accurately or can be used in other conditions where the previous parameters are unreliable and can also be used as an
adjunct in the diagnosis of many karyotypic defects and syndromes. This study is a part of Ph. D thesis of first author
under supervision of the second author. Ultrasonographic measurement of Foot Length of 100 pregnant women was
done in the Radio diagnosis Department. Sonographically we measured foot length from 15 to 36 weeks of gestation. In
our study the earliest age at which fetal foot length could be seen sonographically was found to be 15 weeks of gestation
and mean foot length is 17.5±1.29 and mean sonographic foot length at 36 weeks of gestation is 64.4±3.28.From
regression analysis a strongly significant relationship has been observed between fetal foot length and gestational age.