Familial cystic hygroma with normal karyotype |
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Authors: | William J Watson MD John M Thorp Jr John W Seeds |
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Institution: | Maternal Fetal Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599–7570, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | A patient is described who had three consecutive fetuses with cystic hygroma and hydrops, two of which had documentation of normal karyotype. Some twenty percent of fetuses with cystic hygroma have a normal karyotype, and many of these have other major malformations. An autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance has been postulated, but cystic hygroma may also occur is association with a variety of syndromes, some of which have other patterns of inheritance. |
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Keywords: | Cystic hygroma Hydrops fetalis Karyotype |
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