Not sure if I phrased the title well, but I'll try and explain.
I remember reading a thread not so long ago where a sonographer estimated that they would expect to identify just 25-35% of cases of abnormalities that can be seen on a scan (which I'm interpreting to mean as for any given condition that can, in theory, be seen on a 20 weeks scan, only 1/4 to 1/3 of babies affected will identified - if I've got that wrong, please can someone correct me!).
I guess what I'm trying to work out is whether there are any comparable statistics for an early scan? Does anyone know if there's any research in this area? How many conditions can be identified by an US at 7/8/9 weeks and how reliable are the screening results for those conditions? Does anyone know if there's any research into this area?
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Research into reliability of early US diagnostic scans?
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Tangle · 10/04/2010 23:10
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