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Familial cystic hygroma with normal karyotype
Author(s) -
Watson William J.,
Thorp John M.,
Seeds John W.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
prenatal diagnosis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.956
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1097-0223
pISSN - 0197-3851
DOI - 10.1002/pd.1970100107
Subject(s) - cystic hygroma , karyotype , fetus , lymphangioma , prenatal diagnosis , medicine , pathology , biology , genetics , pregnancy , chromosome , gene
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.