TY - JOUR
T1 - Placental insufficiency as a possible cause of low maternal serum human chorionic gonadotropin and low maternal serum unconjugated estriol levels in triploidy
AU - Fejgin, Moshe
AU - Amiel, Aliza
AU - Goldberger, Shmuel
AU - Barnes, Inbal
AU - Zer, Tamar
AU - Kohn, Gertrude
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - We report three cases in which triploidy (69,XXX) was detected by amniocentesis performed for very low maternal serum human chorionic gonadotropin levels. All three cases also had low maternal serum unconjugated estriol levels. We suggest placental insufficiency as the cause of the very low human chorionic gonadotropin because of histologic observations and because a known marker for placental insufficiency, estriol, was also very low.
AB - We report three cases in which triploidy (69,XXX) was detected by amniocentesis performed for very low maternal serum human chorionic gonadotropin levels. All three cases also had low maternal serum unconjugated estriol levels. We suggest placental insufficiency as the cause of the very low human chorionic gonadotropin because of histologic observations and because a known marker for placental insufficiency, estriol, was also very low.
KW - Amniocentesis
KW - low maternal serum unconjugated estriol
KW - maternal serum human chorionic gonadotropin
KW - placental insufficiency
KW - triploidy
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U2 - 10.1016/S0002-9378(11)91586-5
DO - 10.1016/S0002-9378(11)91586-5
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AN - SCOPUS:0026795558
VL - 167
SP - 766
EP - 767
JO - American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
JF - American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
SN - 0002-9378
IS - 3
ER -