The preliminary report on the ultrasonic measurement of foetal femur length and placental maturity for assessment of fetal gestational age

ABSTRACT

Foetal femur length and placental maturity was measured with with a real time ultrasound scanner in fifty gravind patients from 3 per cent to 42 weeks gestation. In all these cases, the antenatal measurements of the ultrasound fetal femur length corresponds well with the fetal gestational age and in combination with the ultrasonographic placental maturity appears to be superior to other measurements of fetus.